Marcelo Claure

Marcelo Claure is the Founder & CEO of Claure Group, a multi-billion-dollar global investment firm. He has made a commitment to focus his time, capital, and expertise to Latin America over the next several years. As part of this commitment, in June 2023 he announced Bicycle Capital, a Latin America focused growth equity fund with a $500M inaugural target fund. Claure also invested US$100 million in SHEIN, the global #1 on-demand fashion company in the world and was appointed as Chairman of SHEIN in Latin America in January 2023.

He is well known in Latin America generally and to founders in the region, having built Brightstar from a small distributor to the world’s largest global wireless distribution and services company. In addition, Claure led the turnaround of US wireless telecommunications company Sprint and helped orchestrate its US$195 billion merger with T-Mobile, creating what is now the most valuable telecommunications company in the world, with a market cap of nearly US$200 billion. Claure is also the former CEO of SoftBank Group International where he launched SoftBank’s $8B Latin America Funds. 

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. He is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and is a member of the 2016 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.