1Decision Making: C‐Suite Level Leaders and Board Directors
RAMIRO CAVAZOS WAS BORN IN McAllen, Texas, and raised in Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley. His grandparents, one of the pioneer families who settled Weslaco in 1919, founded one of the town's first grocery stores.
While his parents both attended college, he was the first child in his generation to graduate from college.
Ramiro was fortunate to grow up the oldest of four children. His father was a rancher, farmer, and elected official, and his mother was a bookkeeper for an automobile dealer and later an aloe vera producer and distributor, and they were considered a middle‐income family. Ramiro was able to attend college based on an academic scholarship he received from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a little bit of financial help from his parents and worked part‐time while attending school.
Ramiro's biggest obstacle to getting to college and succeeding was that he did not have a strong network of high school classmates to lean on for support when he moved away to go to college. He felt that he did not have a core group of friends from growing up that allowed him to have a foundation of support as he progressed through life.
Ramiro was able to complete his undergraduate degree ...
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