15 March 2011
Telefonica USA, the U.S. unit of Spain’s Telefonica telecommunications group, named Marcelo Caputo as its chief executive, based in Miami.
He also will run the Americas’ arm of the Telefónica Multinational Solutions area, which provides global services to multinational companies in the United States and Latin America.
Caputo joined the Telefonica Group in 1993. He held key sales positions in Telefonica’s enterprise customer division and then, helped start and led the global customers division in Latin America for five years. For the past three years, he led the company’s enterprise customers division in Mexico.
An engineer by training, Caputo began his career at Motorola Argentina in 1991. He holds degrees from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina in electronic engineering and business administration.
He also enjoys sports and recently ran the New York City Marathon.
Telefonica is active in fixed, mobile and broadband telecom. It operates in 25 countries and has a customer base of 282 million, the company said.