Recent New York City members include Paolo Zampoli, a modeling agency mogul, and Thomas Kirchner, the managing director of the Pennsylvania Avenue Fund.ĭaniel McVicar, a long time star of daytime TV’s “The Bold and the Beautiful,” says he became a member because it’s a very active club where there is always something going on with real movers and shakers. The list is speckled with European royalty out to promote their charity work and Saudi Arabian oil men looking for clean-energy deals.

Since the site launched in late September, DeRose, who is expected to be named chief executive of the company, and Rose Marie Perez, a former model who has run the operation since it was founded, have added 650 member profiles. He said he jumped at the chance to invest in Total Prestige because for a relatively small amount of cash he could acquire an established company with more than 50,000 database members.ĭeRose hopes to combine the existing assets of the company with his sizeable social and Wall Street connections to kick-start the operation. “This is a place you can come for trusted networking with established professionals – and sure you might make a new friend along the way, but that’s not our focus,” said DeRose, 46, who began his finance career at Goldman Sachs by completing a double-digit million-dollar LBO while in his 30s. A Upper East Side financier, frustrated over the lack of available money to complete any deals, plans to pump at least $1 million of his own money into a 15-year-old worldwide social-networking company in hopes of creating an invitation-only Facebook-style online community for millionaires.įrank DeRose, who runs Furrata Capital, a private-equity firm, said the site, Total Prestige, will be different from other social-networking sites aimed at the deep-pocket set because it will focus on dealmaking.

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