User:Rehillegass/David F. Alfonso

           

David F. Alfonso is a self made millionaire and American entrepreneur, investor and businessman whose holdings include the private investment business Empire Investment Holdings, where he is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer. Through his holding company, Mr. Alfonso owns a portfolio of highly diversified operating companies, all purchased from Fortune 1000 corporations, with business profiles of technology, business services, distribution and nice manufacturing. Mr. Alfonso makes calculated investments and leverages a capital base that includes his personal capital, the assets of Empire Investment Holdings, as well as private equity funds backed by pledged capital commitments from private and institutional investors.

Mr. Alfonso lives in South Florida with his wife and two children. He is the son of Cuban immigrants and was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Business: Mr. Alfonso has over twenty years of merger, acquisition and operational experience, having completed more than forty transactions. He has acted as portfolio manager of a highly diversified group of thirty companies, which were acquired business units from the Fortune 1000, with aggregate annual revenues of over $5 billion and 15,000 employees worldwide. Mr. Alfonso has extensive international experience in Asia, Latin America and Europe.

As chairman of the board of Empire Investment Holdings, Mr. Alfonso is responsible for overseeing all strategic development and direction of the firm and its portfolio companies.

Prior to establishing Empire Investment Holdings in 2003, Mr. Alfonso held the executive positions of; senior vice president & principal with Platinum Equity, managing director with Hartford Life International and director of sales & marketing with American Bankers Insurance Group.

Education: Mr. Alfonso earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and an M.B.A. from the University of Miami.

Philanthropy: Mr. Alfonso is involved in supporting various organizations and groups such as; the United Way, the Jimmie Johnson Foundation, Veterans of WWII and the Zoological Society of Florida.

Mr. Alfonso is a member of the board of directors of the Florida International University Foundation Board.