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Marcelo Claure is a global entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Claure Group, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm spanning multiple high growth sectors including tech, telecom, media, real estate, sports and others. The Claure Group portfolio includes investments in companies like T-Mobile, the world’s most valuable telecommunications company where he is the largest individual shareholder; SHEIN, the fastest growing on-demand fashion company globally, where he advises the CEO as Chairman of Latin America; TelevisaUnivision, the leading Spanish-language media and content company; and Nubank, one of the world's largest digital financial services platforms.
Claure immigrated from Bolivia to the US and started his first business Brightstar in 1997 by selling mobile phones from the back of his car and growing it to become the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company and the largest Hispanic business in US history with revenues exceeding US$10 billion.
In 2014, Claure sold Brightstar to SoftBank to become the CEO of US telecommunications company Sprint, where he led its turnaround delivering the best financial results in the company’s 120-year history and helped execute the US$195 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile that closed in 2020. Claure remains an active board member in the New T-Mobile.
Following the merger, Claure was promoted to CEO of SoftBank Group International where he had direct oversight for SoftBank's operating companies like ARM, SB Energy, WeWork, and others. Additionally, Claure was part of the team that helped launch SoftBank’s US$100B Vision Fund.
Going back to his roots as an entrepreneur, Claure launched the US$8 billion SoftBank Latin America fund in 2019, the largest VC fund in the region.
With a passion for futbol, Claure owns Club Bolívar, Bolivia’s largest professional soccer team. In partnership with City Football Group, he is also a co-owner of La Liga team Girona FC in Spain.
Throughout his career, Claure has been recognized with many entrepreneurship awards and is a member of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. He was also recognized by the Carnegie Corporation as a Great Immigrants Recipient.
Claure received a B.S. in Economics and Finance and an honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science from Bentley University. He also received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Babson College. He is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.
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