Ivo Kuljis was born on the early hours of August 19, 1953 to Mateo Kuljiš and Aida Fuchtner at the Eva Perón Maternity in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
[1] In 1972, after obtaining the baccalaureate, he travels to Niterói, a city adjacent to Rio de Janeiro, where he pursued higher education.
[1] On August 4, 1995, he started the Corredor Biooceánico Bolivia Integrando América project, where he later went to the port of Santos to take a trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific by ship.
[1] At the age of 8, Ivo obtained a chicken from a veterinarian at the cost of 30 Bolivian pesos and recovered the money from selling the eggs.
Thanks to his responsibility in money management, he was the treasurer in his course and the organizer of parties, kermesses and even a travel, as well as using his extant resources to build a school and other social works.
Kupel, which manufactured toilet paper, napkins, disposable diapers, sanitary towels and cardboard boxes, among others; gave over 300 people the chance to work, at a time when Bolivia was facing a dire situation.
In 1979 he founded PROTEL (Producciones Gráficas y Televisivas), which produced programs for Televisión Boliviana, with the most advanced video and television production systems available at the time.
In 1984, he creates the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at a time when Bolivia was facing an educational crisis, and diversified Kupel to include a baccalaureate program and a basketball team.
[1] The legalization of private television in Bolivia led to the formal creation of Unión Nacional de Organizaciones Televisivas (Red Uno), using his extant station in Santa Cruz as basis.
[8] Ivo Kuljis supported Carlos Palenque's CONDEPA in the 1993 Bolivian general election, the party ended in third place with only 14.29% of the votes.
He led the Solidarity Civic Union campaign for presidency in 1997, with Juan Chahín as his running mate, ending in fifth place.