Vegas Chamber’s 2026 Preview Includes Aguero’s Patented Data Presentation Friday
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Never underestimate Jeremy Aguero from dropping the NFL’s projected overall number one draft pick — Fernando Mendoza — into his Vegas Chamber Preview presentation. Especially when the Las Vegas Raiders hold that draft selection due to their 3-14 record.
Aguero, known for his entertaining, rapid-fire presentations of economic indicators, demographic data and market graphics, showed Mendoza in a Raiders number 15 jersey on a slide that included Allegiant Stadium’s gross revenue per attendee.
The Raiders are expected to select Mendoza, a Heisman Award-winning quarterback fresh off leading his undefeated Indiana Hoosiers to college football’s national championship.
The hyper-enthusiastic, fast-talking and ultra-animated Aguero was in mid-season form during his Preview presentation at the annual late January Chamber event.
The Vegas Chamber has used its Preview to showcase high-profile sports speakers like NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, A’s owner John Fisher and Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali.
At Friday’s Preview, Raiders team president Sandra Douglass Morgan and Aces team president Nikki Fargas took the stage to talk about their teams. Fargas said the three-time WNBA champion Aces are sold out for a third straight season at 10,000-seat Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.
Aguero is a go-to consultant in Las Vegas who currently is consulting for the MLB A’s, which are building a $2 billion domed stadium on the Strip. The Athletics plan to open the 33,000-fan venue at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site on 2028.
His Applied Analysis research company used to work for the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board before Aguero started his work for the A’s.
Aguero’s fingerprints are on economic reports done for everyone from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and Fi Las Vegas Grand Prix to Las Vegas-based UFC. Aguero even worked as an executive for the NFL Raiders at one time.
Aguero’s economic report work that often is used to justify public spending on stadiums and sports events in Las Vegas prompted one local elected official to describe Aguero as Las Vegas’ “economist-for-hire.”
When you listen to Aguero’s preacher-like presentations, his love and passion for Las Vegas is palpable.
After Friday’s Preview slide show of more than 100 slides, Aguero told LVSportsBiz.com that he did not believe his presentation is a “retort” to national reports about Las Vegas’ low rankings in categories such as health care and public schools. A recent national study, for example, said Nevada was the fourth worst state in the U.S. for raising a family.
To be fair to Aguero, his demographic and data presentations in past years have cited Las Vegas’ doctor and health employee shortage and also home-owning affordability issues. He refers to them as “challenges” and not “problems.”
But a common theme to his slide show presentations is Aguero’s message that Las Vegas is still a very vital market in the face of “negativity” news reports and sliding tourism numbers that showed visitation was down 7.5 percent in 2025.
Aguero is arguably Las Vegas’ most well-connected non-elected official. LVSportsBiz.com learned Friday he helped the city of Las Vegas with recruiting a manufacturer to build a facility in an economically distressed area in downtown Las Vegas.
He likes to refer to Las Vegas as “one of one” and believes the market’s quality of life issues are an opportunity for the Las Vegas to address them and fix them.
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