C raig McCaw is a visionary American telecommunications entrepreneur who was a key pioneer of the cellular phone industry. He and his brothers inherited their father's small cable television company and, under Craig's leadership, transformed it into McCaw Cellular Communications. He had the foresight to see the immense potential of mobile communications long before it became mainstream.

Through a series of aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses across the United States, he built McCaw Cellular into the nation's largest cellular service provider. In 1994, in a landmark deal that signaled the future of telecommunications, he sold the company to AT&T for $11.5 billion. After this massive success, he continued to pursue ambitious and futuristic ventures, co-founding Teledesic, a bold but ultimately unsuccessful project to create an 'internet in the sky' with a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites. He also founded Nextel Communications. His career has been defined by his ability to see the future of communications technology and make massive bets on it.