Paul Bulcke doesn’t have much time for hobbies, but when he does, he likes to fly planes. The chief executive of Nestlé talks about escaping on weekends to soar across the Alps for an hour.

“I work a lot, but I have many interests,” he explains from his hotel in Salzburg, where the Swiss food giant is sponsoring one of Austria’s most famous music festivals.

“I’m a pilot, I’m a romantic. I like to fly old planes that look like Out Of Africa [bi]planes.”

His passion for flying, which was sparked in Chile shortly after he joined Nestlé in the late 1970s, helps him to forget about the stress of the job. There’s no chance to unwind on this busy Saturday.

Bulcke has been in back-to-back meetings and events as he helps to host the seventh Young Conductors Award, an annual competition for under-35s.