<!-- {"name":"","type":"layout","children":[{"name":"","type":"section","props":{"width":1,"padding":"small","style":"default","image_size":"cover","height":"","image_position":"center-center","vertical_align":"middle","title_position":"top-left","title_rotation":"left","title_breakpoint":"xl"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"row","props":{"fixed_width":"large","breakpoint":"m","layout":"1-1"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"column","props":{"widths":["1-1"],"image_position":"center-center"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"headline","props":{"title_element":"h1","title_style":"heading-primary","title_decoration":"","text_align":"center","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"small","animation":"","visibility":"","content":"Senior Leadership Team","margin_remove_bottom":true,"margin_remove_top":true}},{"name":"","type":"divider","props":{"divider_style":"icon","maxwidth":"large","maxwidth_align":"center","margin":"small","divider_element":"hr","margin_remove_bottom":true,"margin_remove_top":true}}]}]}]},{"name":"","type":"section","props":{"width":1,"padding":"","style":"default","padding_remove_top":true,"image_size":"cover","animation":"fade","image_position":"center-center","vertical_align":"middle","title_position":"top-left","title_rotation":"left","title_breakpoint":"xl"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"row","props":{"layout":",","gutter":"","breakpoint":"m","fixed_width":"large"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"column","props":{"widths":[""],"image_position":"center-center"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"image","props":{"image_border":"","inline_align":"","margin":"default","animation":"","visibility":"","image":"images\/julio-brache.jpg","image_alt":"Woman with red dress","margin_remove_top":false}},{"name":"","type":"headline","props":{"title_element":"h3","title_style":"h2","title_decoration":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"default","animation":"","visibility":"","content":"Dr. Julio A. Brache","margin_remove_bottom":true}},{"name":"","type":"text","props":{"column":"","column_breakpoint":"m","text_style":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"default","animation":"","visibility":"","text_color":"","text_size":"","content":"President of the Board of Rica Group","margin_remove_top":true}},{"name":"","type":"text","props":{"column":"","column_breakpoint":"m","text_style":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"","animation":"","visibility":"","text_color":"","text_size":"","content":"<p><b>In 1975 Dr. Julio Brache became president of Rica Pasteurizer, position which he still occupies today.\nBorn in Moca, Dominican Republic, the life of this prominent man is closely associated with his success with one of the most enterprising agroindustrial entities in the country, the Rica Group. His success is responsible for the Rica Group reaching and keeping its undeniable leadership role in the area of processing milk and citrus products.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note that he is a professional in the medical field in which he is a reputable surgeon. Dr. Julio Brache was the first director of the Moscoso Puello Hospital from 1956 to 1959. At the time he was also surgeon at Hospital of the Dominican Airforce from 1956 to 1959. As of 1964 he practiced as medical surgeon at the Salvador B. Gautier Hospital, position which he left in 1969 to dedicate himself entirely to overseeing Rica Pasteurizer. 10 months later the pasteurizer celebrated its first month of topping sales of a million quarts of milk.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dr. Julio Brache\u2019s presidency the Rica Pasteurizer saw the rise of sister companies; DOMINICAN CITRUS PARTNERSHIP, and SAN ANTONIO DIARY. These companies make up what is today the Rica Corporate Group.<\/p>"}}]},{"name":"","type":"column","props":{"widths":[""],"image_position":"center-center"},"children":[{"name":"","type":"image","props":{"image_border":"","inline_align":"","margin":"","animation":"","visibility":"","image":"images\/pedro-brache.jpg"}},{"name":"","type":"headline","props":{"title_element":"h3","title_style":"h2","title_decoration":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"default","animation":"","visibility":"","content":"Pedro Brache","margin_remove_bottom":true}},{"name":"","type":"text","props":{"column":"","column_breakpoint":"m","text_style":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"default","animation":"","visibility":"","text_color":"","text_size":"","content":"Executive Corporate President of Rica Group","margin_remove_top":true}},{"name":"","type":"text","props":{"column":"","column_breakpoint":"m","text_style":"","text_align":"","text_align_breakpoint":"","text_align_fallback":"","maxwidth":"","maxwidth_align":"","margin":"","animation":"","visibility":"","text_color":"","text_size":"","content":"<p><b>Pedro Guillermo Brache \u00c1lvarez, Executive Corporate President of Rica Group and son of Julio A. Brache, demonstrates the values he learned at home. He studied at the San Juan Bautista Institute and finished his high school education at at Princeton, New Jersey. He pursued a university degree and a master\u2019s at the University of Syracuse and the American University of Washington, D. C., respectively.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During his student years he was unclear as to what course he wanted to follow professionally. Therefore he did not wish to stop studying. \u201cIt was a time that I enjoyed to the utmost and I missed it when it came to a conclusion. I am a person who gives himself body and soul to what he does.\u201d He graduated in 1987 and started in Rica in 1989. \u201cI started at the bottom. I rotated through various departments until I reached this position. My father gave me the opportunity and I was able to benefit from it.\u201d His idea of success is very peculiar. \u201cIt is all about giving your children the same opportunities you had.\u201d The best advice he ever received was to be humble and empathetic, something he learned from his father. \u201cYou have to put yourself in the other\u2019s place and understand their feelings. I do not ask my people to do anything I would not do myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes a manager should see the firing of an employee as his or her own error. \u201cAll managers must analyse themselves before making such a decision: did I not give enough support, training or the necessary tools? You have in your hands the lives of many people and when they are successful so is the company. I like to see executives arrive at Rica and make a career here, see how the company\nhelps them evolve, grow personally and professionally. It is through the development of its people that companies grow\u201d.<\/p><p>\u201cMy father is a humble man, the kind that gives a lot of importance to the human side. He created the company out of nothing, something that can be more difficult than taking over an enterprise that is already running. Not all doctors have enjoyed good fortune success in business. He succeeded\nbecause he has an incredible common sense and knows how to use it. He is very positive and that is what makes a great man\u201d, emphasised Pedro referring to his father.<\/p><p>Another reason to be for the enterprise, remembers the Executive President, is the fact that Don Julio was a cattle rancher. He produced milk but had no one to sell it to. \u201cA group of friends decided to get together, among them the C\u00e1ceres family who still form an important part of the group. With time my father ended up with most of the shares. That is how the company was born.\u201d<\/p><p>Pedro cannot leave out the important role his mother played. A family story told by Pedro gives us an idea of how she was. \u201cWhen my father was going to buy a part of the shares I was very young. My mother took us all into a room and told us: \u201cYour father is going to make a business deal that if it goes well we will all do very well but if it goes bad we are going to be worse off than we are now.\u201d That was very important because in that moment our mother instilled in us a sense of family, a sense of sharing all that goes on in the family business.\u201d remembers Pedro.<\/p>"}}]}]}]}]} -->