Laurent Fraticelli graduated from the prestigious Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne in Switzerland. Currently, Laurent Fraticelli is the Soho Beach House General Manager. He replaced Mark Somen who returned to his native Kenya to run a new hotel there called Tribe. Fraticelli oversees design and operation of hospitality properties, and began his career in luxury hotels in France, Switzerland and Spain. He has also previously been recruited by Andre Balazs and was appointed Vice President of Palisades Homes. Laurent Fraticelli supports the Miami Beach Education Foundation and is part of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.

She began collecting Latin American art in the 1970s, and founded CFAF in 2002 with the goal of fostering understanding and appreciation for contemporary artists from Latin America through grants, commissions, exhibitions, and bilingual publications. She is a trustee of MAM, Patrons of the Tate, the Cintas Foundation, the United States Artist, and the International Women’s Forum, and is an active humanitarian and environmentalist.

This Oakland-native’s first book, The Joy Luck Club, earned Tan the National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989. She followed up with a number of bestsellers, including The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and Saving Fish From Drowning.

There are more than 580 million copies of her novels in print, and each of her books is a bestseller.

Kaufman is an American film director and screenwriter. His greatest blockbuster success was a film called The Right Stuff, a screenplay he wrote and directed. Although he is not widely recognized for directing a large number of films, the films he has worked on have received recognizable praise for exuding intelligence and independence. Many have …