Gustavo Alfredo Jimenez de Cisneros Rendiles was born on 1 June 1945 and is a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros.
22 Facts About Gustavo Cisneros
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The Gustavo Cisneros family was the first-wealthiest in South America on the 2006 Forbes ranking.
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Gustavo Cisneros graduated from Babson College in Massachusetts in 1968.
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Grupo Gustavo Cisneros is one of the largest privately held media entertainment organizations in the world.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2000.
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Gustavo Cisneros became President of Grupo Gustavo Cisneros when he was 25 years old.
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Gustavo Cisneros' wealth comes from his holdings in media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products companies.
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Grupo Gustavo Cisneros is one of the largest privately held Spanish-language media and entertainment companies.
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Until the buyout of Univision, the United States' leading Spanish-language television network, Gustavo Cisneros was one of the biggest shareholders of the Company.
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Gustavo Cisneros owns Venevision International, which produces and distributes media and entertainment products throughout the world, and Venevision, a Venezuelan television network.
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Long an advocate of free enterprise Gustavo Cisneros has for many years been expanding his operations outside of Venezuela and into overseas markets, including the US, Spain and more recently China.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been developing Tropicalia, a multibillion-dollar resort in Miches, 80 kilometres northwest of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been listed among the world's richest men according to Forbes magazine, which estimated his fortune at US$1.1 billion in 2019.
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Gustavo Cisneros's wealth has decreased from its 2014 peak of US$4.4 billion.
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Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Gustavo Cisneros is a privately held Latin American art organization based in Venezuela and New York City.
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Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros began collecting Latin American abstraction after their marriage, in 1970.
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The Gustavo Cisneros Foundation was moving toward building a permanent institution in Caracas in the late 1990s until Hugo Chavez was elected president.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been married to his wife, Patricia, since 1970.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been a significant MoMA benefactor since 1992, she has been a trustee of the museum and made substantial cash contributions to the museum's recent renovation.
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Gustavo Cisneros's name is on one of the institution's exhibition rooms.
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Phelps de Gustavo Cisneros is an active member of the International Council and the Latin American Acquisitions Committee of Tate, London; she is an International Trustee of the Fundacion Amigos del Museo del Prado, Madrid; belongs to the Association Centre Pompidou America Latina; the Museum Berggruen's International Council; and the American Friends of the Fondation Beyeler, among others.
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Gustavo Cisneros has lived in the Dominican Republic since the 1990s.