{"id":61090,"date":"2019-11-18T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-steps-down\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:24:44","slug":"t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/t-mobile-ceo-john-legere-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile CEO John Legere Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-Mobile <\/strong>CEO John Legere is stepping down. The wireless operator announced that its Board of Directors has named Mike Sievert as CEO, effective May 1, 2020. Currently President, COO and a Board Director, Sievert will assume the CEO role from John Legere after the conclusion of Legere\u2019s contract on April 30, 2020. Sievert\u2019s new title will be President and CEO. Legere will remain a member of the Board.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO transition is part of the Board\u2019s succession planning process to position the next generation of leadership at T-Mobile to take the company forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Legere has had an enormously successful run as CEO. As the architect of the Un-carrier strategy and the company\u2019s complete transformation, John has put T-Mobile US in an incredibly strong position. I have the highest respect for his performance as a manager and as a friend, I am very grateful to him for the time together,\u201d said Tim H\u00f6ttges, Deutsche Telekom CEO, and Chairman of the Board of T-Mobile US. \u201cJohn taught everyone at T-Mobile that if you listen to customers and empower employees, you can change a culture \u2013 and by doing so \u2013 change a company and an entire industry. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to thank John, and of course Mike, and all the employees for everything they have achieved over the past seven years. We have tremendous respect for John\u2019s leadership and appreciate his incredible contributions to T-Mobile\u2019s success. The Board is pleased that John will support this leadership transition while focusing on closing our pending acquisition of Sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile CEO John Legere is stepping down. The wireless operator announced that its Board of Directors has named Mike Sievert as CEO, effective May 1, 2020. Currently President, COO and a Board Director, Sievert will assume the CEO role from John Legere after the conclusion of Legere\u2019s contract on April 30, 2020. Sievert\u2019s new title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}