Frank Rainieri joins the Board of Regents of INTEC
Santo Domingo. Bill Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) swore on Thursday the tourist entrepreneur and president of Grupo Punta Cana, Frank Rainieri, as a new member of its Board of Regents, the highest instance of government of the university.
Rainieri, who happens to be one of the 15 members of the Board, is recognized as a visionary of the tourism industry in the Dominican Republic, and has stood out for promoting the development of the tourist pole in the eastern part of the country.
Along with Miguel Gil Mejía and Freddy Madera, these last ones sworn in October, Rainieri is part of the new members of the organization, who replace the outgoing regents Pedro Ureña, Manuel José Cabral and Juan Barceló, who at 2011 exhausted their nine-year term as part of the institution.
The Board of Regents of INTEC, chaired by Ana María Ramos, is the legal administrator of the institutional patrimony, according to the statutes of the INTEC. It is integrated by the Rector, Rolando M. Guzmán, outstanding people of the national community and graduates of the university who, statutorily, constitute the majority. Recently, Luis Henry Molina, Mary Fernández, and Manuel Corripio have joined as members.
Profile of Rainieri
In 1999 Frank Rainieri was awarded as "Hotelier of the Year" by the Caribbean Hotel Association; and recognized as Outstanding Young by Jaycee's Dominican Chapter, in the year 1978.
His contributions to the community have earned him numerous national and international awards, including the high Presidential Citation Award, awarded at 1985 by the then President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.
He is a member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce, an organization that presided from 1986 to 1988; also of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), of which he was president in 1994; Member of the Steering Committee of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA); and Founding President of the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST). He is also an active member of the renowned international non-profit YPO and Clinton Global Initiative.