Dionisio Gutiérrez Mayorga (born 23 July 1959) is a Guatemalan businessman and media personality. He is currently the President of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo. Early years and family Dionisio Gutierrez is the second son of Dionisio Gutierrez and Esperanza Mayorga. His grandfather, Juan Bautista Gutiérrez, was a Spaniard businessman and entrepreneur who established himself in Guatemala in the first years of the 20th century. On 3 October 1974, Gutierrez's father died in a plane crash. According to Francisco Perez de Antón, that tragedy led to a “generational void” inside the Gutierrez family, and Gutierrez began to work in Grupo Gutierrez in 1976, when he was only 17 years old. Business career By the end of the 1970s, Gutiérrez and his cousin Juan Luis Bosch took on a shared chief executive officer role at Corporación Multi Inversiones, a family owned multinational corporation. Gutierrez held the presidency role in the company until In 2010, when he gave away his position in the company to his brother Juan José, to focus on the academia and political analysis think tank over which he presides. Civic career Gutierrez was in projects of several student associations and groups during his college years, where he denounced both the actions of the military government and the Marxist guerrilla, including Electorama 82, an effort by young people to audit the electoral process of 7 March 1982. Gutierrez also participated with the “Student Committee Against Terrorism” and the “Civil Student Front”, with several publications in the independent journal El Imparcial For seven years, Gutierrez was president of the Free Enterprise Chamber and led one of the first programs of political surveys in the country. The first publication “Guatemala Responde 1987” (Guatemala Answers 1987) revealed Guatemalan citizen's opinion about the economic, political and social situation in the first years of Vinicio Cerezo. In 1989, he published a second edition “Guatemala Responde IV: Percepciones y opiniones del pueblo guatemalteco después de 37 meses de gobierno democrático” and in 1990, he issued a political survey about the voter's preferences on the presidential elections of that year. Gutierrez hosted a TV show broadcast in Guatemala, other cities in Central America and the United States called Libre Encuentre, which encouraged thought and debate among leaders from different sectors of the society. Gutierrez stirred debate and controversy among guests from all social sectors and experts, in many occasions abandoning his role as moderator, and participating in