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I am Anthony Marnell III. My grandfather came here as a mason and raised our family on a simple rule: your word is your bond. My father, Tony, turned that ethic into a company. I lead it now.
We are small, privately held, and family run. We answer to the partners who trust us and the communities we work in, not to shareholders or short-term returns.
Hawaiʻi is not like anywhere else we have worked, and we know that. We are here to listen first, to be honest about what we know and what we do not, and to move at the pace respect requires. If we say we will do something, we do it. If we get something wrong, we own it and we fix it.
Anthony A. Marnell III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Marnell Companies
We are a small, family-owned company with a long record of building for community ownership. In Hawai'i, we are here to listen, and to earn the right to be useful.
In ninety seconds, here is the model we would ask Hawai'i to consider, and the role we would ask to play in it.
The State of Hawai'i owns the enterprise. Not a private company. Not an out-of-state operator. The people of Hawai'i.
An independent commission or authority, appointed under statute, sets the rules, audits performance, abd hold the operator accountablr in public.
A qualified operator, selected competitively, runs the facility on a transparent, published fee. No hidden margins. No back-end participation. One published number.
Net revenues earmarked in statute for public priorities determined by the Legislature and the people of Hawai'i: health, education, housing, and community reinvestment.
We do not measure our record by the buildings we deliver. We measure it by what those buildings return to the people who own them.
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These are the people who will do the work in Hawai'i, the family they represent, and the standard they were raised on.
Leads Marnell Companies and Marnell Gaming. A UNLV graduate, he began at the Rio, founded enterprise software company TRIRIGA, and developed the M Resort Spa Casino. Chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
In Hawai'i: principal decision-maker and public voice of the family.
An executive and attorney with three decades of public-and-private-sector experience, much of it with tribal governments and enterprises. At Marnell, he leads strategy, partnerships, and government affairs.
In Hawai'i: lead corporate representative and primary contact for policymakers and community leaders.
A Hawaiʻi-based consultant in strategic communications, media response, and stakeholder engagement, with a focus on culturally grounded, community-benefit narratives. Engaged under a consulting agreement with published scope, term, and fee.
In Hawai'i: local communications counsel and press liaison. Not a lobbyist.
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The Marnell family arrived in Nevada in 1952, when Anthony A. Marnell Sr., a first-generation Italian-American mason, moved his family from Riverside, California to North Las Vegas. His son, Anthony A. Marnell II (“Tony”), a USC-trained architect, co-founded Marnell Corrao Associates in 1974, which grew into Marnell Companies. Tony serves today as Founder and Chairman Emeritus. He is not part of the Hawaiʻi engagement team and is included here for lineage only.
These are not talking points. They are commitments we would ask to be written into the statute, the license, or the operating agreement, whichever binds hardest.
If we are asking Hawai'i to trust us, the least we owe is straight answers to the hardest questions. Here they are, in writing, under our name.
We are here to offer a model in which the State of Hawaiʻi owns the enterprise and directs the benefits. Whether Hawai'i wants that model, or any gaming enterprise at all, is a decision for the people of Hawaiʻi and their elected representatives, not for us.
Trust is not something we ask for on a website. It is something we earn, over years, with named partners who will speak for our record. We would rather be measured by how our tribal partners describe us than by how we describe ourselves.
It can be, and we have seen it happen when it is done wrong. That is why the protections we propose are written to be binding, not aspirational, and why we support independent oversight and revocation authority.
If Hawai'i selects our model and, through an independent process, selects Marenll for an operating role, we would earn a published, transparent fee. That is the entirety of our economic interest. There is no back-end participation, no equity, no hidden margin.
The policy brief, Responsible Gaming Charter, and case studies are linked throughout this page. If something is missing, ask us. We will publish it.
Media and Policy inquiries
Every inquiry receives a same-day acknowledgment (Hawai'i Standard Time). Messages are triaged by Kent Caputo, Adrian Kamalii, and Karey Kapoi.
General corporate inquiries: media@marnellcompanies.comEvery testimonial on this page is on the record, from a named individual, with the permission of the community they represent.
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