Senior executive at Caesars leaves for Google

As Caesar Entertainment continue to struggle and fight in bankruptcy court one of its senior executives has left to join Google. Tariq Shaukat, the Chief Commercial Officer for Caesars Entertainment Corp. Has been nabbed by the internet giant to help the companies push to offer more B2B services. Mr Shaukat will become Google’s President of Enterprise Sales.

Earlier this month, Amit Singh, the head of Google’s enterprise app business, jumped over to run business operations for the company’s virtual reality effort. Shaukat’s role will be an expanded one, overseeing sales for enterprise apps, cloud services and devices, according to a source familiar with the company.

Shaukat joined Caesars in 2012 before leaving for his new role with Google.