Davide Fanelli (Haleon): «I would sign right now not to live so much, but live well»

Two years ago Davide Fanelli (thermoli, 1981), general director of Haleon (formerly GSK Consumer Healthcare), resides in Madrid. Although he studies Spanish daily, his accent betrays the Italian origin of this 42 -year -old manager who directs in Spain a company that is a world leader in self -care thanks to reference brands such as Voltadol, Parodontax, Rhinomer, Binaca or Corega. Fanelli, who previously worked in Nestlé or Johnson & Johnson, is a practical, familiar and happy man. Your company focuses on people's health and well -being. What importance does these issues give in your personal life? There is something that I like to remember and we give importance to things when we are close to losing them or we have lost them. In this sense, pandemic helped us understand the value of health. Sometimes we take it for granted, but if you have a health problem the rest will be secondary. What does it take to take care of? I don't have super strict rules. I try to do the things that do me well. For example, as quite well, I don't drink much, I don't smoke, I do sport twice a week, fundamentally gym, paddle, run and go walking through nature. And, of course, taking care of mental health is important, being with the family, with my children, with my friends. In short, with the people I love. Sociabilizing is important. Therefore, I really like being in the office, I do not like to work from home because human contact is lost. In the office it is possible to connect more with people, have coffee, it is part of my health, of balance. How does that balance achieve? R. I try not to bring work concerns home. Sometimes it is not easy to divide, in the end we are the same person, and if something does not work in personal life moves to work and vice versa. But I do nothing particular, I don't make mindfulness. I am very simple, if I have a problem I talk about the problem. I am very practical. Do you take nutritional supplements, such as Multicentrum, one of the brands of the company? R. Of course. I take vitamins and know the benefit they contribute and how bad it is to have a lack of them. We have a vitamin that we have recently launched, a nutritional complement to adults over 50 with a high content of vitamin B12 and you really see the difference and you have more energy, so I already take it and with pride, although it is not yet 50 years old. It is not so easy to eat well and in a balanced way, with all the vitamins and supplements you need. Do you worry about age? R. What really worries me is to do it alone. I value my family a lot, although I am not close to my mother and my father, but they always had the family nearby. The worst that can happen to you in life is to get older. I am not worried, but I am worried about having an active and social life. You don't need to live 100 years if you live badly. If I can sign right now, I would sign not to live so much but live well. I would not like to live 20 years in a hospital. What do you spend your free time? R. Most I dedicate it to my children Chiara, 13, and Gabriele, who recently fulfills 11. My wife and I are Italians and my children are Passport Italians. I also like listening to music (international rock, Italian music) and reading. What can get him out of what? R. We are Latin, we are passionate. Hypocrisy, I don't like the double face, I prefer transparency. I don't like the extremes or dogmatic ideas. If you have a dogmatic idea you are not reasoning well. What is its greatest virtue and its greatest defect? ​​R. I am a very passionate and transparent person, I do not know if it is a defect or a virtue. In 2018 I moved together with my family to live in Asia for work. That international work experience has helped me to understand that there are many paths to reach the same goal. My greatest virtue is determination. I am not the smartest person or the one with more values, but surely I am a determining person and the determination can help you a lot. This is the message I tell my children. You have to invest time and passion, nothing is free. What is happiness for you? R. Happiness is being proud of what you are doing. Being able to look in the mirror and say I'm happy; See people who are close to my happy. My happiness is very connected to the happiness of the people I love. Where can you eat a good pizza in Madrid? R. At my place. It is the best Italian restaurant because my wife cooks well and I more or less well. My wife cooks daily and when there are friends I like cooking, but I like to eat more. Out of jokes, there are good Italian restaurants here. In Spain there is the debate about the best tortilla and in Italy that of pizza. I really like the pizza of Naples and in Madrid is Fratelli Figurate and also the Grosso Napoletano chain, which has good pizza.p. Have you fulfilled all your dreams? R. My family is fine, I have a fantastic job, a fantastic team in a fantastic country, I am super happy. In the end everything that happened, well and bad, has helped me to be here. My dream is to be able to have this satisfaction in the future. What would not be lost for anything in the world? R. Time with people. If I miss the end of the world football championship I can see it on the engraved TV. If something is important for my family, I don't want to miss it. If I know that something is important for my daughters for me is the most important thing because I want to be a good example for them. How many people are in charge? What should a good leader have? R. In Spain there are 200 people. We should ask them. I think I am a very authentic person where you can clearly see what I think, if I like something or don't like it, I am transparent. If I ask you 100, I will give you 110. I think it is important to be an example and I really like to create a connection with people very direct, I do not like hierarchy in the sense that it is important to have communication in both ways. If something does not work, everyone can raise their hands and say it would do it in a different way. You have to have intelligence to change their minds. Here you can consult the latest interviews' after work's all economy and business information on Facebook and Xor in our weekly newsletter