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Mohegan Mitchell Etess, the former top Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment executive who had served since 2015 as a senior adviser to the Mohegan Tribe and as chief executive officer of the Connecticut Sun, the tribe’s WNBA team, left those positions at the end of 2020.
James Gessner Jr., the Mohegan chairman, said through a spokesman Friday that Etess remains “part of the tribe’s extended family” and “a dear friend of the tribe.”
“Eventually, everything has to come to an end,” Etess, 63, said in a phone interview.
In his role as senior adviser, Etess worked on the design plan for the Tribal Winds Casino that the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes have proposed building in East Windsor. The tribes announced in December that they were temporarily shelving the project while focusing on their existing facilities, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.