As one of the most talked-about figures, Marcelo Claure has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.

What is Marcelo Claure's Net Worth and Salary?

Marcelo Claure is a billionaire technology entrepreneur and investor who has a net worth of $1.3 billion. Marcelo Claure is the founder and CEO of Claure Group. Among his myriad other business endeavors, he has served in executive positions at such companies as Sprint, SoftBank Group, and Shein. Claure is also involved in the world of sports, and is the owner of the Bolivian professional football team Club Bolívar and co-owner of the Spanish professional football team Girona FC.

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In Miami in 1997, Claure founded the wireless services company Brightstar, and became its CEO. Originally, he targeted the market in Latin America. In 2001, Brightstar began a distribution agreement with Motorola for all of Latin America, and in 2007 the companies entered into a global distribution agreement.

During his time working at Softbank, Marcelo was consistently one of the highest paid business executives in Japan. He typically earned around $20 million per year. In December 2021 Marcelo reportedly requested amulti-year contract that would have paid him as much as $2 billion. Softbank reportedly countered with an offer in the tens of millions. Perhaps not surprisingly, a few months later he founded his own firm, the Claure Group. Upon his departure, he received a severance package estimated at $94 million, including a $47 million payout and potential future incentive payouts

Marcelo Claure is probably best known for his time working atMasayoshi Son'sSoftbankduring the implosion of WeWorkand its founderAdam Neumann. In 2013 Softbank bought 57% of his telecommunications company Brightstar for $1.3 billion, valuing the business as a whole at $2.2 billion. Claure's remaining 42% was worth around $1 billion on paper at that valuation. A year later, Marcelo orchestrated Brightstar's full acquisition by Sprint. He was then named CEO of Sprint. At the time of this acquisition, Brightstar was generating $10 billion per year in revenue and was the largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States.

Raul Marcelo Claure Bedoya was born on December 9, 1970 in Guatemala to Bolivian parents. When he was two, he moved with his family to Morocco, and then to the Dominican Republic. The family finally settled in La Paz, Bolivia, where Claure spent the majority of his childhood. He was educated at the Instituto Domingo Savio and the American Cooperative School of La Paz, graduating from the latter in 1989. For his higher education, Claure first went to the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts before transferring to Bentley College in Waltham. He graduated from Bentley with a BS in economics and finance.

After graduating from college, Claure returned to La Paz and became the head of business operations at the Bolivian Football Federation. In 1995, he came back to the United States and purchased the cellular retailer USA Wireless, expanding the company before selling it the next year. Claure subsequently became the president of the California-based communications company Small World Communications, leading the company for two years before moving to Miami, Florida.

In summary, the total wealth of Marcelo Claure reflects strategic moves.

Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.