Peter Bottome Deery (28 December 1937 – 14 February 2016) was a Venezuelan businessman.
He was shareholder and the
General Director
A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals''
) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...
of Venezuelan corporation
Empresas 1BC
Empresas 1BC (also known as Grupo Phelps, Centro Corporativo 1BC, and Grupo 1BC), is a privately owned Venezuelan corporation which operates diverse media enterprises such as Radio Caracas Televisión, Etheron, Radio Caracas Radio, , Sonográ ...
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Biography
His parents were Robert Bottome and Kathleen Deery. Later, Katherine Deery married William H. Phelps Jr.
William Henry Phelps Jr. (December 25, 1902 – August 13, 1988) was a Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
Early life
He was born in San Antonio de Maturín, a town located in Monagas, Venezuela. Along with his father, William Henry P ...
, founder of Venezuelan TV station RCTV. Peter Bottome Deery was the brother of Robert Bottome Deery, owner of VenEconomy, a consultancy company providing financial, political and economic data in Venezuela.[
In 1959, Peter Bottome became director of the radio station ]Radio Caracas Radio
Radio Caracas Radio was a Venezuelan radio station. It was last owned by Empresas 1BC, a Venezuelan private media corporation.
History Background
In 1930, Edgar J. Anzola, who was employed in an electronics business named ''Almacén Americano ...
. He gave the radio station a new style focused on broadcasting American music.[ Years later, he founded Caracas 92.9, an FM station in Caracas.]
Bottome was president of the board of directors of Corporación Radiofónica Venezolana (CORAVEN), a branch of Empresas 1BC in charge of international distribution of RCTV productions.[ He was the main shareholder of Venezuelan newspaper '']El Diario de Caracas
''El Diario de Caracas'', was one of the best known newspapers of Venezuela. The paper was founded in 1979 by a group of investors who had the concern to launch a tabloid newspaper with a critical orientation both socio-culturally and politicall ...
'' until 1995 when it was shut down.[
Additionally, Peter Bottome was senior partner of Venezuelan airline Aerotuy.] He developed Aeropotoco, a flight training school located in Oscar Machado Zuloaga International Airport, and Airtech, a company of aircraft maintenance.[
In 1990, Bottome created in Puerto La Cruz, a company named Centro Marino de Oriente to repair sport boats.][
He died on 14 February 2016, as a consequence of a ]myeloma
Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, anemi ...
detected a year before.[
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References
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1937 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma
Empresas 1BC people
Venezuelan businesspeople
Venezuelan people of American descent
Deaths from cancer in Venezuela