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Rank #1898

Marcelo Claure

Net worth $2.2B

Cell phone distribution · United States

Born
Dec 09, 1970
Age
55
Source
Cell phone distribution
Residence
Miami Beach, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
6
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian and American entrepreneur who served as chief operating officer of Japanese firm SoftBank.
  • After selling his first company, a regional phone chain, Claure founded Brightstar, a wireless distributor targeting Latin America.
  • Claure sold Brightstar to SoftBank in 2014, then joined the firm to run Sprint, a SoftBank investment, as CEO.
  • Much of his fortune is now tied up in shares of T-Mobile, which merged with Sprint in 2020. Claure sits on T-Mobile's board.
  • He's now making investments through his family office Claure Group, which owns stakes in fast fashion giant SHEIN and private equity firm Brightstar Capital Partners.
  • Claure was born in Guatemala and lived in Europe before returning to his parents? home country of Bolivia.
  • Claure's father was a geologist for the United Nations.

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