Yahoo Finance -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS - News) announced today that Jeffrey H. Schwartz has been elected to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Schwartz is the chairman and co-founder of Global Logistic Properties, a venture that controls the largest platform of logistic facilities in Asia. Mr. Schwartz replaces Mr. James Purcell, who resigned from the LVS Board on March 9, 2009.