The Boss: A Family’s Vision
February 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
MY father’s father, Bartolomé Poma, was born in Barcelona and worked as a specialized car mechanic in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.
RICARDO POMA
Chief executive, Grupo Poma, San Salvador
AGE 63
FAVORITE POET Rubén Dario
RECENTLY READ The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
By 1918, he’d moved to El Salvador and started a company, B. Poma Ltd., selling Hudson and Essex automobiles. The major leap came when the company received distribution rights for General Motors vehicles.
I credit my mother’s side for my romanticism and spirituality. Mother was more a bohemian. My interest in poetry comes from her mother.
When I was 16, Grandmother would read me poetry. She’d say, “I bet your mother thinks you’re out with girls, not reading poetry with me.”
My father, Luis, was modest, stoic and hard-working — with a pioneering spirit. After taking over his father’s business in the late ’30s, he acquired rights to distribute the Toyota brand in 1952. …
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