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...The Brightstar deal turned Claure into a paper billionaire and one of the richest Latinos living in the US....
...Claure was recruited to SoftBank through the acquisition of his telecoms start-up Brightstar and quickly worked his way into Son’s inner circle, first serving as the chief executive of US mobile group Sprint...
...In a statement on Friday, SoftBank said it would sell its shares in Brightstar Global Group to a newly formed subsidiary of Brightstar Capital Partners, a private equity fund founded by Andrew Weinberg,...
...Mr Claure, who joined SoftBank in 2013 after it acquired telecoms group Brightstar and is now its chief operating officer, added that SoftBank was “better positioned than it’s ever been” to do deals....
...He remains executive chairman of Sprint, leads a new Latin American tech fund for SoftBank, and still chairs Brightstar and Fortress Investment Group....
...This article has been amended since initial publication to say that SoftBank bought Brightstar in 2013, but it was not founded in that year by Marcelo Claure....
...He became something of celebrity during his tenure at Brightstar, thanks in part to his friendship with British football star David Beckham, with whom he launched a Major League Soccer team in Miami....
...Mr Son turned to Marcelo Claure, the founder of Brightstar, to head Sprint after his plan to merge the carrier with T-Mobile US flopped in 2014....
...stakes if not 100%) • 2000 Alibaba (China) — $20m (now owns 28%) • 2012 Fukuoka Dome (baseball stadium, Japan) — $1.1bn • 2012 eAccess (Japan) — $4.4bn • 2013 Sprint Nextel (US) — $22bn (77%) • 2013 Brightstar...
...Mr Claure first caught Mr Son’s eye when he was running Brightstar, a mobile phone distributor he founded and turned into the world’s largest....
...Sales were up 19 per cent to Y2.33tn with the inclusion of acquisitions such as Finnish mobile game company Supercell and wireless distributor Brightstar....
...A Bolivian-born billionaire, Mr Claure made his fortune by founding BrightStar and turning it into the world’s largest distributor of mobile phones, before selling a majority stake to SoftBank for $1.26bn...
...Under the newly appointed chief executive Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless distributor Brightstar, Sprint is focusing on ensuring longer-term profits than pursuing quick profit growth, Mr Son said....
...After withdrawing his T-Mobile bid, Mr Son quickly appointed Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless distributor Brightstar, as Sprint’s new chief executive, to try to stem losses and the outflow of Sprint customers...
...Mr Legere immediately turned to Twitter to rib his new rival at Sprint of this fact after SoftBank appointed Marcelo Claure, a Miami businessman who ran mobile distributor Brightstar, as chief executive....
...People familiar with the situation also confirmed that Sprint would announce Marcelo Claure, a member of its board and founder of wireless distributor Brightstar, as its new chief executive....
...Brightstar also acts as a wholesaler for major Sprint rivals, including Verizon Wireless, AT & T and T-Mobile....
...reported a more than doubling of sales to Y6.66tn, while profits were buoyed on the back of almost 3.5m new subscribers in Japan and recent acquisitions including Sprint and US mobile phone distributor Brightstar...
...It then added to its growing collection of US businesses by agreeing to pay $1.26bn for a majority stake in Brightstar, a Miami-based distributor of mobile phones, days after SoftBank and its subsidiary...
...On Tuesday it said it had agreed to pay $1.5bn for a majority stake in Supercell, a Finnish games developer, and on Wednesday said it was in talks to buy a stake in Brightstar Corp, a US-based mobile phone...
...Those already involved in his project include Simon Fuller, his agent and the creator of American Idol, and Miami-based billionaire Marcelo Claure, who founded wireless distributor Brightstar Corp....
...It completed a $21.6bn acquisition of Sprint this year and recently added to its growing stable of US businesses by agreeing to pay $1.26bn for a majority stake in Brightstar, a Miami-based distributor of...
...He has backing from his agent and American Idol creator Simon Fuller and Miami-based billionaire Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless distributor Brightstar Corp....
...Brightstar will run the exchange programme for Apple, which is trying to get more consumers to upgrade to iPhone 5s to combat the decline in its sales growth....
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