Vice Chairman and Director of Strategy
Cisneros Group of Companies
Adriana Cisneros is Vice Chairman and Director of Strategy of the Cisneros Group of Companies, one of the largest privately held media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products organizations in the world. The Cisneros Group wholly owns or controls companies ranging from broadcast television and television production to consumer products and real estate. The Group sells TV programming and other media content on five continents and in over 90 countries. Its media and entertainment holdings include Venevisión, the leading television network in Venezuela; Venevision International, a global Spanish-language entertainment company; and Venevision Productions, a supplier of top-tier telenovelas for North American and world audiences.
Ms. Cisneros is the granddaughter of the Group’s founder, Diego Cisneros, and daughter of the Chairman, Gustavo Cisneros. She works closely with her father in managing operations and in developing strategy for the Group as a whole. As a third-generation leader of the Cisneros Group, she is overseeing its transformation from a pan-regional Latin American enterprise to one increasingly focused on opportunities in the U.S. Hispanic and global markets.
Ms. Cisneros is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Tropicalia, a Cisneros Group real estate project in the Dominican Republic. Tropicalia is a luxury eco-resort, intended to be one of the Caribbean’s most exclusive destinations.
She is also President of the Fundación Cisneros, founded by Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to support a range of charitable and humanitarian efforts in Latin America and in Hispanic communities worldwide. The Fundación Cisneros is committed to enriching education in Latin America and to increasing awareness of Latin America’s contributions to world culture. Improving educational infrastructure and implementing the Actualización de Maestros en Educación (AME) teacher-training program are Fundación priorities.
Adriana Cisneros is Director of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy’s), and a member of the International Council and of the Latin American and Caribbean Fund at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a member of the Inter-American Culture & Development Foundation, a non-profit initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank. Also, she has recently become a board member of PS1 at MoMA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program Advisory Board, the Georgetown University Latin American Board, and she was elected as Term Member of the Council of Foreign Relations Program for a period of five years, as well as she was appointed Mentor of the Project 21212.com of Brazil.
Ms. Cisneros finished a BA from Columbia University in 2002, and holds a master’s degree in journalism from New York University (2005). She is also a graduate of the Program for Leadership Development (PLD), and an Alumni of Harvard Business School.
Last updated in October 2011.