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Business with a Purpose

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL entrepreneurs are driven by something more than revenue or profit margin. For Ruben Gutierrez, founder and CEO of VRG Components, a global supplier of electronic components, the driver is his past—and his desire to help others build a better future.

Gutierrez emigrated to the U.S. when he was a boy, from an impoverished

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