NII Holdings Inc. announced that Salvador Alvarez will join the company as President, Nextel Mexico on July 14 and John McMahon, Interim President of Nextel Mexico, will be leaving Nextel Mexico and the company on July 31, 2014. Mr. Alvarez has served in a variety of leadership roles both in Latin America and internationally. Most recently, he acted as the CEO of Maxcom.

Prior to that, he was the CEO of Corporativo Corvi. He also served in various leadership roles at ConAgra foods both within Mexico and internationally from 1997 to 2003.