Juan del Río, CEO of the VIVAGYM GYPENIES Group, was born in Granada 60 years ago, but is considered from San Pedro de Alcántara (Marbella). He studied economic and business in London (Ritchmon University), and continued with an MBA between Italy and the US. He has more than two decades occupying high -direction positions. Question. What is the best and the worst of being a high manager? The best thing has been to fulfill the ambition he had to grow, to have more responsibility and stimuli to be able to work in different cultures and sectors. My life has been pure learning. The price you pay is the time you stop dedicating to the personal part, sacrificing my personal and family relationships. One does not have time for everything and nothing is free. P. has lived in seven countries. Which one has felt more comfortable? A. I liked all, but in my heart Colombia occupies a very special space. And Korea's exotism makes me happy to have been three and a half years there. Q. What kitchen does it stay with? A. I am lucky to have worked in Italy and Spain, which gastronomically are two monsters. The Korean is also very good kitchen, although I consider it a closer tad than the Mediterranean. But the Korean classics, the Bibimbap, Bulgogi, the Shabu Shabu … are wonderful. Q. What do you like to do in your free time? A. I love golf, skiing, fishing at sea, reading, paddle, traveling, gastronomy, cooking … Q. Does it go to the gym? A. Yes, several times a week. Q. How do you get people, in addition to paying the gym, go regularly. R. Interestingly it is a myth. It is true that there is a percentage in Spain of people who pay and it costs you to go, but we have memory mechanisms. The one who does not come to leave. Q. How many hours does your workday have? A. They say that there are two types of people, the aguiluchos and the owls. I am clearly Aguilucho, I have difficulty staying awake at eleven o'clock at night. I get up between five and a half and six in the morning. I usually be in the office about eight, and I like to think that I work between eight and seven in the afternoon with the intermediate of the food. Although it is not always the case. Q. How does stress carry? A. I sleep reasonably well, stress is a partner. I have learned to handle it starting to handle frustrations. I think I am a serene person in business decisions. Q. How long are you able to ignore the mobile? A. I like to think that at the table with my family and in the meetings I have it in my jacket pocket. Q. How does it reconcile? A. My family has been quite comprehensive with the challenges I have had and has understood that my work involved traveling. I have always felt your support. I have two daughters, one lives in New York and another, in Los Angeles. Q. What advice usually gives to young people? A. I don't usually give them if they don't ask me. I think young people must learn from us to handle disappointments and frustration. They are only two more elements of the life of life, you have to relativize them. Q. A quality that values in others? R. affection and affection. The affectionate people do the world much better. Q. Is there a lot of lie in the world of business? There is the same lie as anywhere. Those who are liars are, I do not believe that the company stands out from a family or any other social group. Being the world as it is, when you think about the future, what worries you? R. I have a slightly more positive world vision than the one that expresses his question. I worry about understanding others without having to put the other cheek. I am not sure that when they hit you a tortazo you have to put the other cheek and not defend yourself. Q. Is he happy? A. I am happy with intermittences. Happiness is a job, it is not something genetic.
