[2] Later, Katherine Deery married William H. Phelps Jr., founder of Venezuelan TV station RCTV.
[4] Bottome was president of the board of directors of Corporación Radiofónica Venezolana (CORAVEN), a branch of Empresas 1BC in charge of international distribution of RCTV productions.
[4] He was the main shareholder of Venezuelan newspaper El Diario de Caracas until 1995 when it was shut down.
[5] He developed Aeropotoco, a flight training school located in Oscar Machado Zuloaga International Airport, and Airtech, a company of aircraft maintenance.
[4] In 1990, Bottome created in Puerto La Cruz, a company named Centro Marino de Oriente to repair sport boats.