A Former Private Equity Dealmaker Takes His Restaurant Group International
Juan Santa Cruz started his restaurant chain in Buenos Aires. Now he's in London, too
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Juan Santa Cruz was working in private equity for the Exxel Group in Buenos Aires in 2001 when economic crisis in Argentina forced him to reassess his career path.
"I had been living in this whirlwind of deals and adrenalin, and I was quite good at it, but I realized it wasn’t really my true passion," he says in an interview at Casa Cruz, the bar and restaurant he opened this month in London's Notting Hill.