Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster

Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster (born c. 1947) is a US-based Argentine businessman. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of InterEnergy Holdings, a Cayman Islands-based energy company active in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile and Jamaica. A college friend of former President Bill Clinton, he is a director of the Clinton Foundation and a major donor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster
Bornc. 1947
Argentina
Alma materGeorgetown University
OccupationBusinessman
Board member ofClinton Foundation
Children5
RelativesStefano Bonfiglio (son-in-law)

Early life

Gonzalez-Bunster was born circa 1947 in Argentina.[1][2] He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1968.[3][4] While he was in college, he was friends with Bill Clinton.[2]

Career

Gonzalez-Bunster built a barge-mounted power plant with the Seaboard Corporation in the 1980s.[3]

Gonzalez-Bunster served as the vice president of Gulf and Western Industries.[3] He founded Basic Energy Ltd. (Bahamas), an operator and distributor of energy in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Jamaica.[3] He also served as the president of the Board of Directors of Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina,[5] a coal, oil and wind energy company active in the Dominican Republic.[6] Additionally, he was a partner in Remington Realty, a Texas-based real estate company, and an investor in AquaCube, a Scottish water purification company.[7]

Gonzalez-Bunster founded InterEnergy Holdings, a Cayman Islands-based energy company active in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile and Jamaica,[8] in 2011.[5] He serves as its chairman and CEO.[3][9] Gonzalez-Bunster also serves as the president and director of Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana Macao (CEPM),[5] a wind and solar energy producer which distributes electricity in the Dominican towns of Punta Cana, Bávaro and Bayahibe.[10]

Philanthropy and political contributions

Gonzalez-Bunster is a member of the Institute of the Americas.[3] He serves on the board of directors of the Latin American Board of his alma mater, Georgetown University.[11] In 2013, he organized the launch of the Georgetown Alumni Club in the Dominican Republic.[4]

Gonzalez-Bunster visited Haiti alongside his daughter, Dr Paul Farmer and Bill Clinton shortly after the 2010 earthquake.[2][12] has served on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation since 2013.[3]

Gonzalez-Bunster donated $30,000 to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in 2009 and 2013.[13] He donated US$100,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund, a SuperPAC which supports Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.[14]

Personal life

Gonzalez-Bunster resides in Greenwich, Connecticut,[7] with another property, Casa Pacifica, in Casa de Campo, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.[2] He has five children,[7] including a son, Luis, who is paraplegic;[12][15] and two daughters, Adriana and Carolina.[2] His daughter Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster, a former Goldman Sachs banker and the founder of the Walkabout Foundation,[12] is married to Stefano Bonfiglio, the co-founder of private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners, and they live in Knightsbridge, London.[2][16] Her wedding was attended by Hillary and Bill Clinton.[2]

References
  1. Robinovitz, Karen (August 13, 2004). "HAVENS; In Pursuit of Fabulousness". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  2. Herrmann, Joshi (June 25, 2015). "Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster: From Goldman's to good works". London Evening Standard. Retrieved October 19, 2016. Brought up in Greenwich, Connecticut, as the well-connected daughter of a wealthy Argentinian-born energy entrepreneur, Gonzalez-Bunster became a Londoner 10 years ago when she came to the LSE to do a masters. [...] After the LSE she briefly worked for the Clinton Foundation [her father is a director and trustee], then joined Goldman Sachs.
  3. "Board of Directors". Clinton Foundation. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  4. "Latin American Board helps launch the Georgetown alumni club in the Dominican Republic". Latin American Board. Georgetown University. June 24, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  5. "Company Overview of InterEnergy Holdings Ltd.: Rolando González-Bunster". Bloomberg. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  6. "Company Overview of Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina, S.A." Bloomberg. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  7. "Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster". The Americas Group. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  8. "Company Overview of InterEnergy Holdings Ltd". Bloomberg. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  9. "Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster". InterEnergy. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  10. "Company Overview of Consorcio Energético Punta Cana - Macao, S.A." Bloomberg. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  11. "BOARD OF DIRECTORS". Latin American Board. Georgetown University. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  12. Vilensky, Mike (October 4, 2011). "After Accident, a Nonprofit Is Born". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  13. Vozzella, Laura (July 29, 2015). "Clinton donors also pumped millions into McAuliffe's coffers". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  14. "Rolando Gonzalez Bunster Political Campaign Contributions 2016 Election Cycle". Campaignmoney.com. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  15. Sawicki, Stephen (March 2012). "Forging Their Way". Greenwich Magazine. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  16. Macon, Alexandra (June 3, 2014). "Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster's Wedding in the Dominican Republic". Vogue. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
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