Gustavo Cisneros parents: Meet Diego Cisneros & Albertina Cisneros

Gustavo Cisneros’s parents were Diego Cisneros and Albertina Cisneros (née Rendíles Martínez). Diego Cisneros was a businessman in Caracas from 1929.

Diego Cisneros received the Pepsi concession for Venezuela in 1940, before going on to gain the concession for private TV channel Venevisión in 1961.

Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros y Rendiles was a Venezuelan billionaire businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros. Gustavo Cisneros was born on November 20, 1945, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Gustavo Cisneros graduated from Suffield Academy in Connecticut in 1963 and Babson College in Massachusetts in 1968. Cisneros supported two philanthropic entities: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Fundación Cisneros.

Gustavo Cisneros lived in the Dominican Republic beginning in the 1990s. Aside from his Venezuelan citizenship, Cisneros also held United States, Spanish, and Dominican citizenship.

Gustavo Cisneros became President of Grupo Cisneros, one of the world’s largest privately held media entertainment organizations when he was 25.

Gustavo Cisneros owned Venevision International, which produces and distributes media and entertainment products worldwide, and Venevisión, a Venezuelan television network.