Craig McCaw
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Craig McCaw (born August 11, 1949) is an American businessman and entrepreneur, who was a pioneer of the cellular phone industry.
McCaw Cellular (now part of AT&T Mobility) and Clearwire Corporation is the founder of McCaw Cellular (now part of AT&T Mobility) and Clearwire Corporation.
Early life and cable TV beginnings
Craig is the second of Marion and J. Elroy McCaw's two sons. He attended Lakeside School, where he was later given a Lakeside Distinguished Alumni Award. McCaw's father, who was also the sole proprietor of Gotham Broadcasting Corporation, was a broadcasting magnate and a financier. Gotham owned the New York City radio station WINS, which became one of the first stations to rock and roll, with Alan Freed being one of the station's oldest disc jockeys. McCaw's father was involved in the acquisition and selling of television and radio stations, which brought in wealth but also had incurred substantial debt. Elroy's four sons all served as linemen and door-to-door salesmen before moving to the television industry in the 1960s.
When Elroy died, the only thing not sold to pay the debt was the tiny Centralia cable company, which was in trust. Craig spent time at Stanford and became a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (DKE), and in his senior year, he took over the reins of the cable company and began to rename the company. He turned the funds from his expanding cable business to purchase other remote cable companies, resulting in a profitable conglomerate. McCaw Cablevision was the country's 20th largest cable carrier in the 1980s by the 1980s.
Personal life
McCaw, a founding donor and underwriter of the Free Willy Foundation (along with Warner Brothers Studios), made a $2 million donation from 1993 to 2002. Keiko the Killer Whale was released back to the wild by the foundation in 2014. It was later known as the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation.
McCaw was previously married to Wendy McCaw, a California newspaper publisher. In 1997, the two couples divorced. McCaw was married to Susan Rasinski McCaw, an investment banker and former United States Ambassador to Austria. They have three children together.
In 1996, McCaw purchased a house in Hunts Point, Washington, from Kenny G.
McCaw is currently on the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution and is a member of the Friends of Nelson Mandela Foundation. He is president of the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation, which funds a variety of educational, environmental, and international economic development programs. McCaw has also served on the boards of Conservation International, the Grameen Technology Center, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and the Academy of Achievement.
McCaw is a very popular car collector, and he and his brother, Bruce, once owned a collection of 400 cars. McCaw paid $35 million for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, establishing a new record for the most expensive vehicle ever built. The 250 GTO was built for Stirling Moss but never raced the car. Innes Ireland and Masten Gregory drove it during the 1962-24 Hours of Le Mans.
Craig McCaw is no longer on the Forbes 400 list of Wealthiest Americans as of 2016.
Awards and honors
- 1989 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
- 2000 – Wireless History Foundation’s Hall of Fame
- 2007 – Silicon Valley Forum’s Visionary Honoree