Frank Rainieri | |
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Born | [1] | 24 October 1945
Alma mater | Saint Joseph's University [2] |
Known for | Founder and developer of Punta Cana |
Board member of | Grupo Puntacana |
Spouse | Haydée Kuret Pacheco [3] |
Children | 3 [3] |
Parent(s) | Francisco Rainieri, Venecia Marranzini [4] |
Relatives |
Fernando Rainieri (brother) Celso Marranzini (second-cousin) |
Awards | Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, Order of Christopher Columbus |
Website |
www |
Frank Rafael Rainieri Marranzini is a Dominican businessman in tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. He is the chairman and founder of Grupo Puntacana. According to Forbes, Rainieri has one of the ten largest fortunes in the Dominican Republic, with a net worth near the billion-dollar mark as of 2014. [5] In 2015, he was designated ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Dominican Republic, a position that his father also held four decades earlier. [6]
Rainieri was born into a family with tradition in hospitality. [4] His paternal grandparents, Isidoro Rainieri and Bianca Franceschini, [4] migrated from Bologna, [7] northern Italy, to northern Dominican Republic, and established two hotels, one in Puerto Plata and the other in Santiago; they had more than 10 children. [4] His parents were Francisco Rainieri Franceschini and Venecia Marranzini Lepore (daughter of the Italian immigrants Orazio Michelo Marranzini Inginio and Inmaccolatta Lepore Rodia, who migrated as children with their respective families, all of them natives of Santa Lucia di Serino, in southern Italy).
He went to college in Philadelphia at Saint Joseph's College, now Saint Joseph's University, [2] finalizing them at APEC University, in Santo Domingo.
He married Haydée Modesta Kuret Tejeda, Miss Dominican Republic contestant for Miss World 1971. They are the parents of 3 children.
In 1969, Rainieri and Theodore Kheel [8] acquired a 58-million square meter land on the eastern end of the Dominican Republic, which was covered with jungle and six miles of beach. [2] [9] [10] Their first project was a 40 guest hotel called the Punta Cana Club, inaugurated two years later. [2] In 1979, they constructed the Puntacana Hotel. The Punta Cana International Airport followed in 1984. [9] In 1997, Rainieri and Kheel partnered with Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias to start work on the Punta Cana Marina and the real estate development of the area. [2]
Todavía no había cumplido 24 años cuando Frank Rainieri decidió convertir a Punta Cana en un gran destino turístico. Hoy, 35 años después, (...)
Frank Rainieri | |
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Born | [1] | 24 October 1945
Alma mater | Saint Joseph's University [2] |
Known for | Founder and developer of Punta Cana |
Board member of | Grupo Puntacana |
Spouse | Haydée Kuret Pacheco [3] |
Children | 3 [3] |
Parent(s) | Francisco Rainieri, Venecia Marranzini [4] |
Relatives |
Fernando Rainieri (brother) Celso Marranzini (second-cousin) |
Awards | Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella, Order of Christopher Columbus |
Website |
www |
Frank Rafael Rainieri Marranzini is a Dominican businessman in tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. He is the chairman and founder of Grupo Puntacana. According to Forbes, Rainieri has one of the ten largest fortunes in the Dominican Republic, with a net worth near the billion-dollar mark as of 2014. [5] In 2015, he was designated ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Dominican Republic, a position that his father also held four decades earlier. [6]
Rainieri was born into a family with tradition in hospitality. [4] His paternal grandparents, Isidoro Rainieri and Bianca Franceschini, [4] migrated from Bologna, [7] northern Italy, to northern Dominican Republic, and established two hotels, one in Puerto Plata and the other in Santiago; they had more than 10 children. [4] His parents were Francisco Rainieri Franceschini and Venecia Marranzini Lepore (daughter of the Italian immigrants Orazio Michelo Marranzini Inginio and Inmaccolatta Lepore Rodia, who migrated as children with their respective families, all of them natives of Santa Lucia di Serino, in southern Italy).
He went to college in Philadelphia at Saint Joseph's College, now Saint Joseph's University, [2] finalizing them at APEC University, in Santo Domingo.
He married Haydée Modesta Kuret Tejeda, Miss Dominican Republic contestant for Miss World 1971. They are the parents of 3 children.
In 1969, Rainieri and Theodore Kheel [8] acquired a 58-million square meter land on the eastern end of the Dominican Republic, which was covered with jungle and six miles of beach. [2] [9] [10] Their first project was a 40 guest hotel called the Punta Cana Club, inaugurated two years later. [2] In 1979, they constructed the Puntacana Hotel. The Punta Cana International Airport followed in 1984. [9] In 1997, Rainieri and Kheel partnered with Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias to start work on the Punta Cana Marina and the real estate development of the area. [2]
Todavía no había cumplido 24 años cuando Frank Rainieri decidió convertir a Punta Cana en un gran destino turístico. Hoy, 35 años después, (...)