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. Claure immigrated from Bolivia to the US and started his first business Brightstar in 1997, growing it to become the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company 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 and delivered the best financial results in the company’s 120-year history. Claure also led the US$195 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile that closed in 2020, creating what is now the most valuable telecommunications company in the world with a market cap of nearly US$200 billion. Claure remains an active board member in the New T-Mobile and is the company’s largest individual shareholder. 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. In 2019, Claure launched the US$8 billion SoftBank Latin America fund, the largest VC fund in the region. Claure is a member of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame and 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 and is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.