Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster | |
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Born | c. 1947 Argentina |
Alma mater | Georgetown University |
Occupation | Businessman |
Board member of | Clinton Foundation |
Children | 5 |
Relatives | Stefano Bonfiglio (son-in-law) |
Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster (born c. 1947) is a US-based Argentine businessman. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of InterEnergy Group, a UK-based energy company active in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile, Jamaica and Uruguay. A college friend of former President Bill Clinton, he is a director of the Clinton Foundation.
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]
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 Group, a UK-based energy company active in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile, Jamaica and Uruguay, in 2011. [5] He serves as its chairman and CEO. [3] 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. [8]
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. [9] 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] [10] 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. [11] He donated US$100,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund, a SuperPAC which supports Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. [12]
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; [10] [13] Diego, Matías and two daughters, Adriana and Carolina. [2] His daughter Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster, a former Goldman Sachs banker and the founder of the Walkabout Foundation, [10] is married to Stefano Bonfiglio, the co-founder of private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners, and they live in Knightsbridge, London. [2] [14] Her wedding was attended by Hillary and Bill Clinton. [2]
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.