Enrique

Sales, SAS Peru

By day, Enrique works as an Account Executives in Peru, but by night – he’s a national record-holding breast stroke swimmer! That’s right, he holds the record in 4x50 breaststroke relay and has competed in several national competitions and the South American series.

If that weren’t enough, he’s also an avid art collector – with over 1,000 pieces of art, ranging from 900 BCE to contemporary – all housed in a flat where minimalism would be considered a crime!

Name a local museum, art gallery or exhibition, or a good restaurant – and that’s probably where you’ll find him hanging out with his two French bulldogs.

When Enrique is at the office he brings all of his passion to work, “I love that I can be myself here. My favorite part of the job is advising my customers and helping them realize the value they can gain from our analytics! Lifetime customers deserve (and are worth) every second of your time.”

He’s also an active member of our PRIDE employee inclusion group, “Being a new grandpa and having three kids, I was actively looking for colleagues and ready to share my story. It’s been an amazing experience (my first in a corporate environment), being 50 years old and meeting other colleagues with the same interests.”

And if his coworkers had to describe him in one word – it would be “entregado” (that’s trustworthy and committed in Spanish).

When asked if he had a favorite quote to share – he couldn’t just choose one:

“Over 20 years ago, I had lunch with a customer and my napkin had this poem on it:

“They die slowly, those who don’t travel, who don’t read, who don’t hear music, who don’t find grace in themselves.

They die slowly, those who become a slave of habit, repeating the same trajectories every day, who don’t change aim, who don’t take the risk of dressing in a new color, and don’t talk to people who they don’t know.”

I’ve kept the napkin in a drawer ever since.

And my most admired and beloved quote is from a book by Hunter S. Thompson called The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967:

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside with a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a ride!””