About Marcelo Claure

Marcelo Claure serves as Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International and Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Claure, alongside Chairman & CEO Masayoshi Son, oversees the strategic direction of the Tokyo-based company. His primary responsibilities include ensuring Group companies and investments meet financial and operating objectives, and managing global Group synergies, joint ventures and corporate functions. Claure oversees the vast portfolio of the Group’s operating companies, including Arm, WeWork, Brightstar, Fortress, SB Energy, Boston Dynamics, among others, and SoftBank’s ownership in T-Mobile US. He also oversees SoftBank Latin America, comprised of the SoftBank Latin America Fund and the Tech Hub, which is responsible for taking Group companies and investment companies into Latin America. In addition, Claure serves as Executive Chairman of WeWork, the world’s largest coworking and space-as-a-service company, where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s long-term strategy and growth-led transformation Claure previously served as Executive Chairman of Sprint where he is widely recognized for delivering the best financial results in Sprint’s 120-year history and architecting the merger with T-Mobile US. Claure founded Brightstar and built it into the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company, with operations in more than 50 countries and revenues exceeding $10 billion. Brightstar became the largest Hispanic-owned business in US history. Claure is a member of the Board of Directors of SoftBank and ARM and serves as Executive Chairman of WeWork, Chairman of Fortress, Chairman of SB Energy Global and Executive Chairman of Brightstar. He also runs Club Bolivar, Bolivia’s most popular and successful soccer team and is Chairman and Owner of Club Internacional de Futbol Miami (Miami Beckham United). Claure was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year by several publications, and was appointed to Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. He was also featured in the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” initiative. 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 and Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Presidential CEO Advisory Board of MIT. Claure is married and has six children.