Alejandro Santo Domingo

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Alejandro Santo Domingo
Born
Alejandro Santo Domingo

(1977-02-13) 13 February 1977 (age 47)
New York City, U.S.
Nationality
  • American
  • Colombian
  • Spanish
Education Harvard University
OccupationFinancier
Title
Board member of
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​
Children2
Father Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Relatives
Family

Alejandro Santo Domingo (born 13 February 1977) is a Colombian American businessman. He manages the Santo Domingo Group, his family's conglomerate, with his net worth estimated by Forbes to be US$2.6 billion as of May 2023. [1] He is a board member of several companies and organizations, such as Bavaria Brewery, Caracol Televisión, El Espectador , the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Barefoot Foundation. Santo Domingo also owns a minority stake in the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He is married to British socialite Lady Charlotte Wellesley.

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Early life

Santo Domingo was born on 13 February 1977 in New York City. He is the son of Colombian billionaire Julio Mario Santo Domingo and his second wife, Colombian socialite Beatrice Dávila. He is the brother of Andres Santo Domingo Dávila and half-brother of Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga, who was the only child of Julio Mario Santo Domingo and his first wife, Brazilian socialite Edyala Braga. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School, followed by a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University. [2] [3]

Career

His work centers on managing the Santo Domingo Group, his family's conglomerate. He is also the managing director of Quadrant Capital Advisors, [2] [4] member of the AB InBev finance committee, [4] chairman of Bavaria Brewery, [4] director of the Colombian network Caracol Televisión and newspaper El Espectador , [4] chair of the Wildlife Conservation Society, [4] and board member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [5] DKMS, WNET, Mount Sinai Health System, the British Museum, [6] and the Barefoot Foundation. [3] [4]

In 2023, Domingo and some of his family were investors in a group led by Josh Harris that purchased the Washington Commanders, an American football team belonging to the National Football League (NFL), for $6.05 billion. [7] [8] The deal was the highest price ever paid for a sports team. [9]

Personal life

Santo Domingo holds American, Colombian, and Spanish nationality. [4] He lives in Southampton, New York. During the years he has been seen with several famous socialite girlfriends, which have included heiress Amanda Hearst, editor Karen Larrain and models Eugenia Silva and Julie Henderson. [10] In July 2015, he announced an engagement to Lady Charlotte Anne Wellesley, daughter of Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington and Princess Antonia of Prussia, great-great-granddaughter of the late German emperor Wilhelm II. [11] They were married in Íllora, Spain, on 28 May 2016. [12] They have two children, born in 2017 and 2019.

He is a director of Colombia's Endeavor, an international non-profit development organization that aims to find and support high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets and is member of the Latin America Conservation Council of The Nature Conservancy. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Forbes Billionaires Profile: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila". Forbes. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Children of Fortune", Vanity Fair (June 2009 edition); accessed 3 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 Tully, Kathryn: "Outside interests," The Guardian
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "AB InBev Board of Directors". ab-inbev.com. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  5. ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art website; accessed 3 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Trustee: Alejandro Santo Domingo". The British Museum . Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Maske, Mark; Jhabvala, Nicki (20 July 2023). "NFL owners approve sale of Commanders from Daniel Snyder to Josh Harris". The Washington Post . Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Josh Harris Announces Acquisition of Washington Commanders" (Press release). Washington Commanders. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  9. ↑ Jhabvala, Nicki (20 July 2023). "The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was 'like 20 deals in one'". The Washington Post . Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Engaged! Inside Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley's Romance". Avenuemagazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Mr A. Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Mendick, Robert (28 May 2016). "Duke of Wellington triumphs in wedding dress battle as daughter Lady Charlotte Wellesley weds billionaire financier in Spain". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  13. ↑ "Alejandro Santo Domingo". The Nature Conservancy . Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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