Frank Rainieri
Dominican businessman (born 1944)
Francisco Rafael "Frank" Rainieri Marranzini (born 24 October 1945), is a Dominican businessman in tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. He is the chairman and founder of Grupo Puntacana.2
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Born Oct 24, 1945.1
About
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. 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.
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Companies
- Grupo PuntacanaFounder8
Early life and education
- Date not recordedSaint Joseph's University3
Rainieri was born in Puerto Plata into a family with tradition in hospitality. His paternal grandparents, Isidoro Rainieri and Bianca Franceschini, migrated from Bologna, 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. His parents were Francisco Rainieri (who was born in Bologna, Italy and migrated when he was a child) and Venecia Marranzini Lepore (born in San Juan de la Maguana to Italian immigrants Orazio Michelo Marranzini and Inmaccolatta Lepore, who migrated as children with their respective families, all of them natives of Santa Lucia di Serino, in southern Italy).
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Career
Occupation: diplomat.5
- Date not recordedFounded Grupo Puntacana4
Personal life
He went to college in Philadelphia at Saint Joseph's College, now Saint Joseph's University, finalizing them at Universidad APEC, in Santo Domingo.
He married Haydée Modesta Kuret Pacheco, whose father was a Lebanese migrant and her mother is Dominican. She was Miss Dominican Republic contestant for Miss World 1971. They are the parents of 3 children.
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- 1WikidataFrank Rainieri on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaFrank Rainieri on Wikipedia
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- 8WikidataGrupo Puntacana, Founder
- 9Wikimedia CommonsFrank Rainieri photo by Jannelly Diaz, CC BY-SA 4.0