Mashantucket — Last year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic that caused Foxwoods Resort Casino to temporarily shut down for the first time, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe stepped up its diversification efforts, hiring a chief executive officer to lead Command Holdings, a business-development company in the planning stages since 2017.
On Tuesday, the new entity stepped out of the shadows, announcing its acquisition of CeLeen LLC, an information technology company headquartered near St. Louis, Mo., and Quattro Consulting LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that provides services to government organizations.
“We’ve been looking to expand outside gaming since Day One,” said Rodney Butler, the Mashantucket chairman. “Having to shut down during the pandemic validated the theory — which we already knew to be hypothetically true — that we’ve got to be involved in other things.”