FULL SPEED SPRINT
Born in 1970 to Bolivian parents in Guatemala, Raul Marcelo Claure moved frequently as a child. His geologist father, Rene Marcelo, worked for the United Nations, and the family was sent to far-flung locales, including Morocco, the Dominican Republic, and, of course, Guatemala.
Today, Claure, who is a dual Bolivian-American citizen, lives in the most American of places: Overland Park, Kansas, where he runs a $30 billion–plus telecom company, overseeing a workforce of more than 30,000 employees. Not bad for a kid who didn’t learn to speak English until the ninth grade.
Claure has always been entrepreneurial. When he was a young child, he sold marbles to his classmates at school. “Ever since I was a young man in Bolivia, I knew I was wired to be an entrepreneur,” Claure recently told the . At
