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Wynn UAE appoints a VP of Private Access

Andrea Aguirre-Jugueta joins Wynn UAE's executive leadership as the resort builds out its high-end guest services ahead of opening.

Inside RAK Desk Published 16 Jul 2026 3 min read Share LinkedIn
Photo: GGRAsia

What happened

Wynn UAE has strengthened its executive leadership with the appointment of Andrea Aguirre-Jugueta as Vice President of Private Access, ahead of Wynn Al Marjan Island's opening.

The Private Access function is Wynn's high-end guest-services layer — the concierge and relationship-management operation built around the resort's premium and VIP guests — and the appointment signals the developer is now staffing out that layer of the operation as construction and pre-opening work continue on Al Marjan Island.

Wynn Al Marjan Island is being built as a roughly $5.1 billion integrated resort and is expected to be a major driver of RAK's next phase of tourism growth once it opens, with RAKTDA itself flagging the project as central to its visitor and hotel-key targets.

Executive appointments at this level are one of the more reliable signals of how close a project like this is to opening — resorts staff out specialised guest-services roles only once the broader opening timeline is firm enough to plan around.

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Source GGRAsia — original reporting 2026-07-16

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