Nicholas Rockefeller is a partner in the technology group of the law firm of Perkins Coie, and managing director of Rockvest Development Group, an investment company with multinational interests in banking and venture capital. He previously was at the law firm of Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey. He is chairman of the Los Angeles Committee on Foreign Relations, serves on the boards of several public and private corporations and is active with a number of nonprofit organizations, including his alma mater, Yale University. Mr. Rockefeller is a frequent lecturer on issues relating to venture capital, the world economy, e-commerce and technology ventures. A participant in the World Economic Forum, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. (source:http://www.pacificcouncil.org)

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So, in David Rockefellers own words: "He is a seventh or eight cousin" Source: September 25, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

--- Surya Semesta Internusa, company controlled by Suriadjaya family of Indonesia, reportedly plans to sell Melia Bali Hotel, Bali, to Trenwith Holdings Ltd, joint venture 70 percent owned by Rockefeller family's Rockvest Development; deal has broad implications because Asian owners view luxury hotels as symbols of business success and rarely sell them when facing other financial problems; could signal sales of other big Asian hotels

(source:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hotels_and_motels/index.html?query=ROCKVEST%20DEVELOPMENT&field=org&match=exact) ---

The above article says that Rockvest ia a Rockefeller Family owned venture, and as noted earlier on this page Nicolas Rockefeller is the managing director of Rockvest company.

So, shall we NOT have any public information about this man because the Rockefeller Family for some reason doesn't publicly talk about him?

He is clearly part of the Rockefeller family, of the Rockefeller fortune and the Rockefeller story. Keep this article up, and let us build it and find MORE information about him.. Not hide him away.

This has nothing with what you call "outrageous conspiricy theories" to do. It has to do with common sense.

--Rubyscube 04:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update. I have confirmed the Wall Street Journal Story ... sort of. The article is about the possible misperception on the part of Shanghai officials that by dealing with Rockefeller Group International Inc. they were also dealing with the Rockefeller family. The family, however, began selling the company off in 1989 and doesn't own any of it today.

Stirring further confusion about Rockefeller Group in the minds of some government officials earlier this year was the arrival of one Nicholas Rockefeller, a Los Angeles attorney, who says he appealed personally to Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng to take over the project after hearing it was troubled. He says he suggested to the mayor that his name would make it easy to adjust any contracts.

Nicholas Rockefeller declined to say where in the Rockefeller family he fits. But the family's patriarch, David Rockefeller, said through an associate that he doesn't recall ever meeting Nicholas. The relationship "is probably quite distant, seventh or eighth cousins," according to the associate, Peter Johnson.

(Source: Areddy,James T. "A Shanghai Project Stalls --- Confusion Over Exactly Who Is a Rockefeller Stymies Plans To Restore City's Famed Bund". The Wall Street Journal. 28 September 2005.)--Thomas Basboll 09:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY HAS OVER 190 MEMBERS.

I've been quoted for saying that just being a member of the family would make you notable. I should have said "being a direct descendent of John D. Rockefeller" but even that may have been a bit hasty. I certainly don't want to suggest that there should be over a hundred articles that say nothing more than "NN is a member of the Rockefeller family." If Nicholas R. is to have an article, we need more than "may be a seventh or eighth cousion of David Rockefeller." The trouble with this man is not so much his biography but our ignorance of it. We don't know anything about him that warrants an article about him.--Thomas Basboll 08:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]