Adriana Cisneros
| Adriana Cisneros Phelps de Griffin | |
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Adriana Cisneros
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Adriana Cisneros Phelps December 17, 1979 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Occupation | CEO and Vice Chairman Grupo Cisneros |
Adriana Cisneros Phelps de Griffin (born December 17, 1979) is the Venezuelan CEO of Grupo Cisneros, a privately owned media, entertainment, digital media, real estate, tourism resorts and consumer products company. She is also President of the Fundación Cisneros.
Cisneros was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Cisneros' paternal grandfather was Diego Cisneros, who founded Grupo Cisneros. Her maternal grandfather was William H. Phelps, Jr. Her paternal great-grandfather was William H. Phelps, Sr., who, in 1953, started the first television station in Venezuela. Both were noted businessmen and ornithologists. She has an older brother, Guillermo Cisneros, and an older sister, Carolina Cisneros de Rodríguez.
In 1998, she graduated from Deerfield Academy, a boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, she attended along with other family members.
In 2002, Cisneros received a BA from Columbia University. In 2005 she received an MA in journalism from New York University. In 2010, Cisneros graduated from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development.
Cisneros worked at the organization, Aid for AIDS, which promotes awareness and treatment of AIDS in Latin America.
Grupo Cisneros is one of the largest privately held media entertainment organizations in the world.
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