Management Team

Mr. Pitoniak has been VICI’s Chief Executive Officer since his appointment on October 6, 2017 and serves a member of our Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Pitoniak served as Chair of Realterm, a private equity real estate manager based in Annapolis, Maryland, that invests in logistics real estate from January 2015 to July 2017. Mr. Pitoniak served as an independent director at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE: RBA), a global asset management and disposition company from July 2006 to May 2019, and as a director of Regal Lifestyle Communities (TSE: RLC), a Canadian senior housing real estate owner and operator, from 2012 until its sale in 2015. Mr. Pitoniak served as Chair and Trustee of InnVest, a publicly listed REIT, from February 2015 to August 2016, when the REIT was sold and taken private, and served as Managing Director, Acting Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of InnVest from April 2014 to February 2015, where he was responsible for recapitalizing the REIT and transitioning its management function from an external, third-party management model, to an internal management model. Mr. Pitoniak served as President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of bcIMC Hospitality Group, a hotel property and brand ownership entity (formerly a public income trust called Canadian Hotel Income Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (“CHIP”)), where he was employed from 2004 to his retirement in 2009. As Chief Executive Officer of CHIP, he led the company to four consecutive years of total return leadership among Canadian hotel REITs, and then to a sale in 2007. Mr. Pitoniak was also a member of CHIP’s Board of Trustees before it went private. Prior to joining CHIP, Mr. Pitoniak was a Senior Vice President at Intrawest Corporation, a ski and golf resort operator and developer, for nearly eight years. Before Intrawest, Mr. Pitoniak spent nine years with Times Mirror Magazines, where he served as editor-in-chief and associate publisher with Ski Magazine. Mr. Pitoniak holds a B.A. from Amherst College.

Mr. Payne has been our President and Chief Operating Officer since October 6, 2017. Mr. Payne previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, Inc., a position he held since 2014. Mr. Payne has more than 25 years of experience in the gaming and hospitality business. Prior to 2014, Mr. Payne served as President of Central Markets and Partnership Development of Caesars from 2013 to 2014, Caesars’ President of Enterprise Shared Services from 2012 to 2013, Caesars’ President of Central Division from 2007 to 2012 and Atlantic City Regional President in 2006. In 2005, Mr. Payne also served as Caesars’ Gulf Coast Regional President. Mr. Payne served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Harrah’s New Orleans from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Payne is a Board Member of the Audubon Institute, Council for a Better Louisiana and Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans. Mr. Payne holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Duke University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Northwestern University.

Mr. Kieske has been our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since January 1, 2018, and served as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from November 27, 2017 until December 31, 2017. On February 24, 2026, Mr. Kieske was appointed to serve as an independent director of Kilroy Realty Corporation (NYSE: KRC). Prior to joining VICI, Mr. Kieske worked at Wells Fargo Securities/Eastdil Secured since 2007, where he most recently served as Managing Director in the Real Estate & Lodging Investment Banking Group. In his role, Mr. Kieske was responsible for providing capital raising and financial advisory services to companies in the real estate and lodging industries. Prior to Eastdil, Mr. Kieske worked in the Real Estate & Lodging Investment Banking Groups at both Citigroup and Bank of America. Early in Mr. Kieske’s career, he was a senior accountant at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Assistant Vice President & Corporate Controller at TriNet Corporate Realty Trust. Mr. Kieske holds a Bachelor’s degree from University of California Davis and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of California Los Angeles.

Ms. Gallagher has been our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since June 12, 2018, and served as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer upon joining VICI in May 2018. Ms. Gallagher has almost 25 years of experience representing REITs and other real estate companies and financial institutions. Prior to joining VICI, Ms. Gallagher served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at First Potomac Realty Trust (NYSE: FPO). In this role, Ms. Gallagher held leadership responsibility for structuring all transactions (including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions), all corporate governance matters, regulatory compliance (including SEC and NYSE compliance), board relations, enterprise risk management, litigation management, and executive compensation. Ms. Gallagher also oversaw the negotiation and documentation pertaining to First Potomac Realty Trust’s merger with Government Properties Income Trust (now Office Properties Income Trust) (NASDAQ: OPI) in October 2017. Previously, Ms. Gallagher was a Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, Bass, Berry & Sims plc, and Hogan Lovells US LLP. While in private practice, Ms. Gallagher focused on capital markets transactions (including public and private equity and debt offerings), mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures, as well as advising companies in a variety of corporate and securities law matters. She currently serves on the Friends of Princeton Soccer Board, and previously served on the Board of Directors for Make-A-Wish® Mid-Atlantic, Inc. from 2013 to 2019, as well as serving as Chair of its Governance Committee. Ms. Gallagher earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, summa cum laude.

Mr. Wasserman is a Managing Director of Business Development and VICI Experiential Credit Solutions (V.E.C.S.), the Company’s strategy focused on providing debt capital to owners and operators of experiential assets. He previously served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, overseeing accounting, tax, treasury, and SEC reporting. Prior to VICI, he was a Vice President at Blackstone and Controller for Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT), and a senior manager in the real estate assurance practice at Ernst & Young. Mr. Wasserman holds a BSBA in Accounting and Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds and the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Communal Fund and previously served on the Board of Directors of UJA-Federation of New York.

Jeremy Waxman has served as our Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer since March 1, 2026. Mr. Waxman previously served as our Vice President, Accounting and Administration from October 1, 2023 to March 1, 2026; as Vice President, Accounting from March 1, 2020 to October 1, 2023, and as Director of Accounting from June 25, 2018 to March 1, 2020. Prior to joining VICI, Mr. Waxman served in the real estate assurance practice at Ernst & Young for more than eight years beginning in January 2011, most recently as a Senior Manager, where he worked with a diverse group of public and private real estate companies addressing a range of audit, internal control, and complex accounting issues. Mr. Waxman is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in New York and received his Master’s in Accounting and his B.S., Business, Accounting from Miami University of Ohio.