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

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, he is a director of the

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Early life

Gonzalez-Bunster was born circa 1947 in Argentina. He graduated from

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in Washington, D.C., in 1968. While he was in college, he was friends with

Career

Gonzalez-Bunster built a barge-mounted power plant with the

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in the 1980s. Gonzalez-Bunster served as the vice president of

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. He founded Basic Energy Ltd. (Bahamas), an operator and distributor of energy in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Jamaica. He also served as the president of the Board of Directors of Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina, a coal, oil and wind energy company active in the Dominican Republic. Additionally, he was a partner in Remington Realty, a Texas-based real estate company, and an investor in AquaCube, a Scottish water purification company. Gonzalez-Bunster founded InterEnergy Group, a UK-based energy company active in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Chile, Jamaica and Uruguay, in 2011. He serves as its chairman and CEO. Gonzalez-Bunster also serves as the president and director of Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana Macao (CEPM), a wind and solar energy producer which distributes electricity in the Dominican towns of

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and Bayahibe.

Philanthropy and political contributions

Gonzalez-Bunster is a member of the

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. He serves on the board of directors of the Latin American Board of his alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2013, he organized the launch of the Georgetown Alumni Club in the Dominican Republic. Gonzalez-Bunster visited

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alongside his daughter, Dr

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and Bill Clinton shortly after the

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. has served on the board of directors of the

since 2013. Gonzalez-Bunster donated $30,000 to Virginia Governor

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in 2009 and 2013. He donated US$100,000 to the

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, a SuperPAC which supports

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Personal life

Gonzalez-Bunster resides in

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, with another property, Casa Pacifica, in

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, La Romana, the

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. He has five children, including a son, Luis, who is paraplegic; Diego, Matías and two daughters, Adriana and Carolina. His daughter Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster, a former

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banker and the founder of the Walkabout Foundation, is married to Stefano Bonfiglio, the co-founder of private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners, and they live in

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, London. Her wedding was attended by

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and Bill Clinton.

External links

InterEnergy Home page

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez-Bunster, Rolando Living people Businesspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut People from La Romana, Dominican Republic Argentine emigrants to the United States Argentine emigrants to the Dominican Republic Georgetown University alumni Argentine chief executives Argentine company founders Clinton Foundation people Year of birth missing (living people) Gulf and Western Industries