Delio Luis Gonzalez & Butch Kerzner die in crash

I believe he was with Merrill Lynch, but one of the members of DOWS, could give more information.

I am abroad and what I read is that he died in a helicopter crash when he was accompanying Butch Kerzner, of Atlantis Bahamas-fame, to look into investing in the Playa Grande area, on the north coast.

This is a major tragedy. The DR loses one of its best investment promoters, and it is a major tragedy for the Kerzner family. The DR also loses this world class investment opportunity. Our sympathies with the families.

Link on Delio Luis Gonzalez ML Spain Sponsors Swimming Challenge for Cystic Fibrosis Charity

Links on Butch Kerzner

Atlantis Resort Plans For Worldwide Boom - Bahamas Tourism News

http://www.thenassauguardian.net/print/39514032470627.php

Butch Kerzner Growth Plans Include Government Partners to Expand Atlantis Theme to the Middle East, Asia and Beyond / November 2004

Atlantis Rising - Forbes.com

Kerzner To Go Private By Mid-2006

See photos http://www.dr1.com/forums/living/55130-helicopter-crash-sosua-cabarete-area-2.html

Butch Kerzner -- an extraordinary person

42 year old Howard ?Butch? Kerzner, chief executive officer of Kerzner International Holdings Ltd. died instantly in a helicopter accident on Wednesday, 11 October while surveying potential development sites along the north coast. He is survived by his wife and two children.
He was accompanied by Merrill Lynch vice president Dominican Delio Luis Gonzalez, and local reports indicate he was on his way to survey the Playa Grande area.
Butch Kerzner is best known for developing the 34-acre compound of waterslides, underground aquariums, shark tanks, a 2,300-room hotel and casino, and lots of underwater mythology that is known as Atlantis Resort and became a signature landmark in Bahamas, in Las Vegas and Disney style. He worked closely with his father, Sol Herzner, a South African hotelier who took his resort development business to France and then to Bahamas, with the help of his son.
Kerzner had bought his Atlantis, previously the Paradise Island resort development in Bahamas from Donald Trump and Merv Griffin who had tried to turn Paradise Island -- a wide stretch of beach off Nassau -- into a tropical Atlantic City during the 1980s and '90s. But the resort that would become Atlantis filed for bankruptcy under Griffin, and Sol Kerzner's Sun International Hotels bought it from him in 1994 for $125 million.
The Kerzners succeeded by wrapping the resort in a fictional story-line, creating a fantasy world, or what is described as Disneyland on the beach. The company is described as the second largest employer in the Bahamas.
The late Butch Kerzner was a Standford, California University MBA who worked in acquisitions, mergers and capital raising in Wall Street before joining his father and launching the family business to world class levels.
Underway as part of a global expansion program for the company, was a major Atlantis development in Dubai and London.