Marcelo Claure is an entrepreneur and investor.  He founded Brightstar in 1997 and built it into the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company, with operations in more than 50 countries and revenues exceeding $10B, making it the largest Hispanic-owned business in US history. Brightstar was sold to SoftBank in 2014.  

In 2014, Claure was appointed as CEO of Sprint, where he led the company's strategic turnaround, delivering the best financial results in its 120-year history. In 2018, under Claure’s leadership, Sprint announced a $195B merger with T-Mobile that was later approved in 2020 after one of the most challenging regulatory review processes in US history. Shortly after the merger, Claure led the largest non-government secondary offering in financial market history delivering $23B in up front proceeds for SoftBank.

In 2018, Claure was also promoted as SoftBank’s COO and CEO of SoftBank Group International where he oversaw SoftBank's operations and strategy alongside CEO Masayoshi Son, with full operational responsibility for over $300B in assets.  Claure occupied this position until he left SoftBank in January 2022.  

In 2019, Claure founded and launched the now $8B SoftBank Latin America Fund, the largest VC fund in Latin America, and grew it to become one of the best performing funds at SoftBank with a diverse portfolio of 80 companies, including two-thirds of the region’s unicorns.  

In 2019, Claure was also appointed as Executive Chairman of WeWork, where he is recognized for turning the company around and putting it on a path to profitability as well as taking the company public in October 2021.  

In 2020, Claure launched the SB Opportunity Fund with a $100M commitment to invest in companies led by underrepresented racial minorities, especially African Americans and Hispanics, establishing the largest fund of its kind. To date, the fund has invested in ~50 companies.

Claure currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of TelevisaUnivision and is a member of the Board of Directors of T-Mobile, Brightstar and Carnegie Hall.

Claure is also the president of Club Bolívar, Bolivia’s largest soccer team. In partnership with City Football Group, he is also a co-owner of Girona FC, a Spanish soccer team.

Claure immigrated to the US from Bolivia. He received a B.S. in Economics and Finance and an honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science from Bentley University. He is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Presidential CEO Advisory Board of MIT. Claure is married with six children.