Marcelo Claure
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Marcelo Claure
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| Residence | Kansas City, Kansas |
| Nationality | Bolivian American |
| Alma mater | Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | CEO of Sprint Corporation, and Brightstar Corporation |
| Spouse(s) | Jordan Engard |
Marcelo Claure is the chief executive officer of Sprint Corporation. He is also a wireless industry distribution entrepreneur and co-founder of Brightstar Corp. Since its founding in 1997, Brightstar has grown into an enterprise with $10.5 billion in gross revenue, with local presence in approximately 50 countries, on six continents. On August 5, 2014, he was selected to replace Dan Hesse as CEO of Sprint Corporation (Effective August 11, 2014). The announcement was made on August 6, 2014, coinciding with Bolivia's independence day.
He spent two years living in Guatemala, his family moved to Morocco and then to the Dominican Republic before returning home to La Paz, Bolivia, where he spent most of his childhood. He attended the American Cooperative School in La Paz, graduating in 1989. Later that year, he left La Paz to attend what was then the University of Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He subsequently transferred to Bentley University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, graduating in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance.
Claure attended both Catholic and public schools growing up.
After graduation, Claure returned to La Paz and joined the Bolivian Football Federation as International Marketing Manager.
In 1995, he returned to the United States and bought USA Wireless, a cellular retailer. He grew and expanded the company before selling it one year later. In 1996, Claure became President of Small World Communications, a California-based communications and distribution company. He led the company for two years before re-locating to Florida to start Brightstar in 1997.
Brightstar was founded in Miami in 1997, as a distributor and service provider to the wireless industry with a focus on the Latin American market. The company opened offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and the Caribbean. In 2000, the company entered distribution agreement with Motorola for all of Latin America. This was followed by the launch of subsidiaries in Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and El Salvador. A US Brightstar subsidiary opened in 2001, based in Chicago, and later expanded into Asia, followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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