{"id":2365766,"date":"2026-04-09T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2365766"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:10:05","slug":"mohegan-appoints-joe-soper-vice-president-of-sports-entertainment-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mohegan-appoints-joe-soper-vice-president-of-sports-entertainment-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohegan appoints Joe Soper Vice President of Sports &#038; Entertainment \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-134869 articleHeight\">\n<header class=\"article-header\" wp_automatic_readability=\"27.595744680851\">\n<p>\nThursday, April 9, 2026 12:55 PM<\/p>\n<div class=\"ahFull\">\n<div class=\"ahImage\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"43.854402789887\">\n<div class=\"grid-x authorShare\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 grid-x align-middle share\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.0697674418605\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline ns-no-print\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.2325581395349\">\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"CDCart\" wp_automatic_readability=\"47\">\n<p>Mohegan on Thursday appointed Joe Soper as Vice President of Sports &amp; Entertainment. Soper will oversee strategy and programming for Mohegan Sun\u2019s entertainment and work collaboratively across Mohegan\u2019s overall portfolio, which includes Mohegan Pennsylvania in Northeast Pennsylvania, Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bSoper will oversee the strategic direction and day-to-day programming of Mohegan Sun\u2019s entertainment and play a key role in cultivating and strengthening high-impact industry partnerships. This includes working closely with leading promoters and major sports and entertainment organizations to attract premier talent, and secure first-to-market performances.\u00a0Mohegan Sun is home to more than 120 concerts and sporting events annually inside the 10,000-seat Mohegan Sun Arena alone, which recently announced two 25th anniversary shows with rock band Metallica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Soper is a proven leader with invaluable insight and expertise not only as it applies to Mohegan Sun\u2019s Sports &amp; Entertainment, but as it applies throughout our entire enterprise and we\u2019re thrilled to welcome him back to lead one of the most dynamic areas of our business,\u201d Mohegan Chief Marketing Officer David Martinelli said in a statement. \u201cHis dedication and experience will prove integral to the continued momentum in elevating the future of live entertainment at Mohegan Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soper returns to Mohegan after service on the Mohegan Tribal Council, where he\u2019s been Corresponding Secretary since 2019. Soper was responsible for all correspondence issued by the Tribal Council, and for communicating all appropriate information from council to members of the Mohegan Tribe.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Mohegan Tribal Council, Soper worked at Mohegan Sun for 15 years, first as a Senior Financial Analyst followed by serving as Director of Sports &amp; Entertainment, where, according to a news release, he helped grow Mohegan Sun Arena into \u201cone of the world\u2019s busiest live entertainment venues in the world,\u201d while supporting booking, programming and development initiatives across Mohegan\u2019s broader portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"134869\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <!-- end article section --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"box-standout author-tagline\">\n<div class=\"grid-x\">\n<div class=\"cell shrink\">\n<div class=\"authorIm authorIm-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rege-Behe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rege Behe\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cell auto\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.4318181818182\">\n<div class=\"author-tagline-text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"34\">\n<p><strong>Rege Behe<\/strong> brings more than 30 years of experience as a journalist to his role as a lead contributor to CDC Gaming. His work ranges from day-to-day industry coverage to deeper features such as the CDC Gaming Roundtables and the \u201c10 Women Rising in Gaming\u201d series.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<p> <!-- end article footer --><br \/>\n <!-- end article --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t <!-- end #main --><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- end #inner-content --><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source cdcgaming.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:55 PM Email, LinkedIn, and more Mohegan on Thursday appointed Joe Soper as Vice President of Sports &amp; Entertainment. Soper will oversee strategy and programming for Mohegan Sun\u2019s entertainment and work collaboratively across Mohegan\u2019s overall portfolio, which includes Mohegan Pennsylvania in Northeast Pennsylvania, Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara in Niagara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2365767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[458531,430329],"class_list":["post-2365766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-mohegan","tag-personnel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mohegan-appoints-Joe-Soper-Vice-President-of-Sports-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365768,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365766\/revisions\/2365768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}