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Mr. Sergey Ponyatovsky and Ms. Tatiana Poniatowski
and Klimenty Ponyatovsky
Sergey Ponyatovsky and Tatiana Poniatowski
moved to South Florida in 1998 and have
lived there ever since.
Living in Russia prior to this, Sergey has worked
in many maritime industries and organizations.
Having had over 30 years of experience,
including his tenure as a Master mariner, and
has gained much recogniztion as an expert
in seaport and shore excursion operations. In
1986, Mr. Ponyatovsky was recruited from his
career in shipping to become a supervising
shipping agency, which steadily grew into the
world's third largest ship agency company,
with operations on virtually every continent.
Successfully negotiating through the new and
old bureaucracy, Mr. Ponyatovsky became the
1997 and has received many distinctions and honors during his career, such as his selection as a Governor in the
Maritime Security Council, and international body that represents over 70% of the world's shipping. In 2002, Mr.
Ponyatovsky was selected as the ‘Businessman of the Year" by the US Senate's Senatorial Trust. He is also the
Principal of Arctur Travel which is a major shore excursion supplier for cruise ships in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Meanwhile, Tatiana has been an indisputably commendable wife and mother. She has owned several business
the fuel for the family’s engine, she keeps the steamboat rolling on.
Throughout these life-long experiences, Sergey and Tatiana have both garnered much love for the opera. From
Bellini to Verdi, and Verdi to Donizetti, they have as wide of a range of knowledge of opera as they do for the
hospitality industry. Their son, Klimenty, has been brought up on such classics as Eugene Onegin and Rigoletto,
from a very young age, which served as the foundation for his interest in culture, music, and drama. This led him
World, while also working on his graduate program in Hospitality Management, with which he hopes to segue into
following his father’s footsteps.