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ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Celebrating the opening of the Casa de Campo International Port in 2000 : https://casadecampoliving-wp.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/2015/10/Casa_de_Campo_Claudio_Silvestri-1024x683.jpg

My father is a pretty spectacular gentleman if I ever met one. I may be biased, but his unique charisma, charm and ability to relate on a personal level to every employee of Casa de Campo, as well as to Presidents, Kings and Queens has nothing short of amazed and inspired me. Though again, I may be biased but I have a feeling I am not alone with this sentiment.

Knowing my father was ready to journey beyond Casa de Campo, the place he helped make such an iconic paradise, I’ve had some time to reflect before he embarks on his new ventures… After more than 33 years working tirelessly to make the Casa de Campo resort a world class destination, the success of the rest speaks for itself. As a true gentleman would, he is the first to share, or give away credit for these accomplishments. Watching him work tirelessly and passionately for the ongoing improvement of Casa de Campo and its villa owners, I feel as if I have received a master class in what real vision, leadership and persistence can achieve.

Dr. Silvestri directs The Silvestri Group’s real estate holdings, investments, and property management, as well as business advisory services for the tourism, hospitality, energy, wellness and publishing industries.

Dr. Silvestri has held management positions in prestigious hotels including the Grand Hotel in Rome, The Savoy in London, George V in Paris and the Plaza and Americana Hotels in New York. He was Hyatt International’s Director for Mexico and managed the company’s commercial enterprise with Valores Industriales, S.A., through which he led the group’s growth, securing key acquisitions and management contracts that doubled the company’s portfolio of hotels in Mexico.

In 1982, Dr. Silvestri was handpicked as President & CEO for Gulf & Western Hotels by Charles Bluhdorn, the legendary businessman who created a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that included Paramount Pictures, Madison Square Garden, and Simon & Schuster. Mr. Bluhdorn tasked Dr. Silvestri with introducing luxury tourism to the Dominican Republic through the expansion and global positioning of Casa de Campo, the company’s 7,000 acre resort on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic. After the 1984 acquisition of Gulf & Western’s holdings in the Dominican Republic by sugar tycoons, Alfonso and Jose Pepe Fanjul and partners, the company became the Central Romana Corporation. Dr. Silvestri continued with the company as President & CEO of Premier Resorts & Hotels, with the mission to grow the company’s tourism holdings.

Always pushing his vision forward and facilitating team collaboration, Dr. Silvestri’s ability to manage complex negotiations with strategic stakeholders within the organization, external partners and government entities for over 30 years, has been instrumental in initiatives that have resulted in the creation of tourism business units such as an international airport, cruise port and cruise ship island concession. This powerful vertical alignment allowed for the increased utilization and positioning of other outstanding Central Romana Corporation’s assets, such as the concert amphitheatre, cultural centre, world-class sporting facilities and marina.

After his tenure with the company, Dr. Silvestri continues to harness his passion and expertise through The Silvestri Group’s projects and endeavors, involving his established relationships throughout the world. His accomplished career has brought him in contact with international government officials, top multinational corporate executives, as well as dignitaries, celebrities and members of royal families. The success of his tireless work on these and other initiatives has been recognized countless times by governments, prestigious universities and international tourism organizations.

Those are some extraordinarily big, immaculately kept, handcrafted Italian leather shoes to fill.

So what’s next? Well it might be a shocker to hear that my father has no plans of retiring (I’m not even certain he understands the concept). Quite the contrary, he will be joining me at The Silvestri Group as Chairman and partner, working out of our new corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas.

https://casadecampoliving.com/claudio-silvestri-great-adventure/

MercurysBall2 ago

We really need to find out more about who are members of the extended Silvestri family. I'm finding a number of interesting characters but no idea if they are related. Example:

Revealing the Dark Truth About Human Trafficking in South Florida, Local Women Advocate for Victims and Fight Back -https://www.goodnewsfl.org/revealing-the-dark-truth-about-human-trafficking/

There is a battle hidden in plain sight for the lives of vulnerable women and youth caught in the web of human trafficking. .. Working in a variety of organizations, they share information and network through the Broward Human Trafficking Coalition (bhtc.us) and the Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches (htcpb.org)...

. It is pervasive with United States citizens as well,” points out Christina Silvestri, Anti-Human Trafficking Program Administrator for Catholic Charities of Palm Beach. Catholic Charities has a grant along with Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to coordinate services to victims, and Christina is often among the first to be called when authorities rescue a victim.

“There is no denying that it is happening right here in our communities,” said Laura Cusack, Human Trafficking Prevention and Education Coordinator at Place of Hope (placeofhope.com).

Laura's resume http://archive.is/hKsKP

Director of Human Trafficking Services at Sharing One Love - Jupiter, Florida

Place of Hope website: https://www.placeofhope.com/

Voat post: South Florida Uber Rapist has strange, strange connections.....

Just read an interesting article in The Palm Beach Post, on the front page : "Uber passenger says driver raped her" When I started reading this alarm bells started ringing. Seems the alleged rapist Gary Timothy Kitchings was 'House Parent" at foster homes.Kitchings recently worked at the KidSafe Sanctuary in West Palm Beach and Place of Hope also in W Palm.He worked in foster homes in Florida,North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The story said Kitchings and his wife had been house parents at various organizations for 17 years BEGINNING AT FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS TOWN in Omaha Nebraska !! There's a photo with him alongside our Franklin buddy Oliver North. He publishes blogs where he discussed his "career as a behavior-modification specialist" He wrote one story about an aging assassin confronting a demon.Strange stuff.

3141592653 ago

This might not be related, but i know the Silvestri name only because there is a popular Hollywood Soundtrack/Score writer named Alan Silvestri, whose name i saw on many movies (decades ago.) Again a very long time ago I met another man with that name, very nice guy, and asked him if he was related. He was surprised i recognized the name and said yes, Alan is his brother (or cousin.. Cant rememeber.) Btw this was nowhere near California.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Any relation?

AVSI’s secretary general in Rome, Giampaolo Silvestri, was likewise hopeful but uncertain of when normalcy will return and tensions ease in Haiti.

“In Haiti the role of the Catholic Church is very important in terms of social activities and services to the population. What is missing in Haiti is the role of the state, because there are no basic services,” Silvestri told CNS by phone.

“It is a very beautiful country, but the situation these days is very terrible. Every year there seems to be a crisis because of hurricanes or political crisis,” he said. “The president doesn’t want to resign and I think that the protests will continue.”

MercurysBall2 ago

I don't see anything about that.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

https://www.avsi.org/en/person/giampaolo-silvestri/2/

Remarks by Giampaolo Silvestri, Secretary General of AVSI at the Symposium "Pathways to Achieving Human Dignity: Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations" Symposium co-hosted by the Holy See's Secretariat of State and the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See at Old Synod Hall, Ap...

MercurysBall2 ago

Yes. AVSI does a lot of work in Haiti and DR too.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Let me know if I'm getting you off track. It is a common Italian surname.

MercurysBall2 ago

Yes, it's a common name. I can't find any background info on Claudio apart from his work record.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

MORE ON JCPENNY ... A Silvestri works at Legacy West if I am remembering correctly https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Legacy_West

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

(ORGAN) Transplant spokeswoman Pam Silvestri will practice what she preaches

Sports was fun. But in organ donation, Pam found a true passion. "It was perfect timing - the universe doing its thing," she said.

She was soon hired to direct public relations for the Southwest Transplant Alliance and has been at it ever since.

One of the first people she met on the job was Jennifer, who received a kidney donation in 1995 from a deceased donor. Jennifer contacted the organ bank in hopes of meeting the man's family.

Pam helped arrange that. And the more the women talked, the more they bonded.

"It's like we met and we just meshed," Jennifer said.

"Every time I'm around her, I feel better about everything," Pam said.

Pam eventually put Jennifer to work promoting organ donation among minorities.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2011/01/08/steve-blow-transplant-spokeswoman-pam-silvestri-will-practice-what-she-preaches/

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

We can start with Silvestri's in TX

Rebecca Silvestri & Philip Silvestri

Rebecca Silvestri is the vice president of Sales & Marketing. She is also the wife of Philip Silvestri, publisher of Local Profile.

In a previous life, Rebecca was a math teacher in London and the Dominican Republic.

Philip and Rebecca have a little boy named Theo and a baby girl named Luna Rose.

https://localprofile.com/

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Whoah, safe to say even if she just shares the same name - those connections are suspicious.

MercurysBall2 ago

Rick Scott travels to UK with 85-member entourage - https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/07/09/

Gov. Rick Scott's 85-member entourage in the United Kingdom this week includes business leaders, tourism executives, and even a couple of lobbyists and mayors. The manifest, provided by Enterprise Florida, includes Ashton Hayward of Pensacola, along with outgoing Senate President Mike Haridopolos, who's on his third Scott trade mission.

Lobbyists who accompanied Scott across the pond include Marc Dunbar (parimutuels), Robert Hawken of FCCI Insurance Group, Fred Karlinsky (insurance and health care) and John Sebreeof the Florida Association of Realtors. Tom Van Berkel, chairman of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, is in England, as is Don Weidner, dean of the Florida State University College of Law. Mike and Nancy Crews of Custom Manufacturing and Engineering of Pinellas Park are trade mission exhibitors in London.

Also on the trip: George Zoley, chairman and CEO of The GEO Group, Inc., the private prison operator based in Boca Raton. Thirteen employees of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach are in the UK as well.

First Lady Ann Scott accompanied her husband. Others from the governor's office on the trip include press aide Jackie Schutz, Scott travel aide Brad Piepenbrink and Ann Scott's aide Sarah Hansford.

Enterprise Florida spokesman Stuart Doyle said business community representatives decided on their own whether to go along, and are paying their own way. Doyle said a visit to Lloyd's of London is on the business of agenda, which is why some insurance representatives are attending, including state insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty.

CORRECTION: An earlier post incorrectly reported that Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown traveled with the governor. Brown remained in Jacksonville.