Marcelo Claure — Board Member Accountability Profile
Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Director, T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) Board Tenure: 2020 – present Committee Memberships: CEO Selection Committee; Compensation Committee; Executive Committee; Transaction Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)
Basis for Inclusion: Marcelo Claure holds a documented governance role on four T-Mobile committees, including CEO Selection and Compensation — the most senior governance oversight roles at the company. Claure’s background as Sprint CEO, SoftBank International CEO, and founder of Brightstar (a mobile technology company) gives him one of the deepest backgrounds in U.S. telecommunications among all T-Mobile board members. His governance role covers the period of T-Mobile’s significant expansion and government spectrum management following the Sprint merger. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.
Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate governance and political activity.
Biographical Overview
Marcelo Claure (born November 1970, Bolivia) is the founder and CEO of Claure Group, a global investment and business development firm. His prior career included serving as CEO and President of Sprint Corporation (2014–2018) and COO of SoftBank Group (2018–2020) and CEO of SoftBank International (2020–2021). He also founded and sold Brightstar, a global mobile device solutions company, to SoftBank in 2014.
Claure was central to the Sprint-T-Mobile merger negotiations, having led Sprint as CEO before the deal. After leaving SoftBank in 2022 amid governance disputes, he founded Claure Group and returned to broader advisory and board roles. He is one of the most prominent Latin American executives in global technology and telecommunications.
He has served on the Inter Miami CF ownership group alongside David Beckham.
Board Role and Governance Authority
- Company: T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS)
- Board tenure: 2020 – present
- Committee assignments: CEO Selection Committee; Compensation Committee; Executive Committee; Transaction Committee
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Investigative trail pointers (public records)
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| Channel | Starting points |
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| Federal courts | CourtListener / PACER party and attorney searches (spelling variants) |
| Campaign finance | FEC + OpenSecrets for committees and donors tied to documented roles |
| Corporate / LLC | State secretary of state; OpenCorporates for cross-border shells from reporting |
| Sanctions / PEP | OpenSanctions when international business context is already sourced |
| Contracts / grants | USAspending.gov for named entities from investigations |
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Sources
- T-Mobile US Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 18, 2025; SEC EDGAR (CIK 1283699)