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Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following people are serving as our executive officers as of May 26, 2015. These executive officers were
elected to serve until their successors have been elected. There is no familial relationship between any of our executive
officers and directors.
Name Business Experience
Current
Position
Held
Since Age
Marcelo Claure President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Claure was named President and CEO,
effective August 11, 2014, and has served on the Sprint board of directors since
January 2014. Prior to this, he was CEO of Brightstar, a company he founded in 1997
and grew from a small Miami-based distributor into a global business with more than
$10 billion in gross revenue for the year ended 2013. Marcelo serves on the board of
directors of CTIA-The Wireless Association and is a member of its 2015 Executive
Committee. He also is a member of the board of directors of My Brother’s Keeper
Alliance.
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Joseph Euteneuer Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Euteneuer served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Qwest, a wireline telecom company, from September 2008 until
April 2011. Previously, Mr. Euteneuer served as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., a satellite radio provider, from
2002 to 2008 after it merged with SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Inc. Prior to joining XM,
Mr. Euteneuer held various management positions at Comcast Corporation and its
subsidiary, Broadnet Europe. He began his career in public accounting in 1978 with
Deloitte and has also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a Certified Public
Accountant.
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Junichi Miyakawa Technical Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Miyakawa was appointed Technical Chief
Operating Officer in November 2014. Mr. Miyakawa is responsible for overseeing
the company’s network and technology organizations, including related strategy,
network operations and performance, as well as partnerships with network equipment
vendors. Prior to Sprint, Mr. Miyakawa led SoftBank Group’s network operations.
He joined SoftBank BB as a Board Director in 2003 and served as Executive Vice
President, Board Director and CTO for SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank BB, and
SoftBank Telecom. Under his direction, SoftBank emerged as a wireless market
leader in Japan with a network running on 2.5 GHz spectrum, a key band within the
Sprint spectrum portfolio. Before joining SoftBank, Miyakawa was CEO of Nagoya
Metallic Communications Corp.
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John Saw Ph.D. Chief Network Officer. Dr. Saw was appointed as Chief Network Officer in March
2014. Dr. Saw is responsible for network engineering, deployment and operations.
Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President, Technology Architecture. Before Sprint’s
acquisition of Clearwire, Dr. Saw was Chief Technology Officer of Clearwire
Corp. He joined Clearwire as its second employee in 2003 and was instrumental in
scaling the company's technical expertise and organization. In 2009 and 2010, he led
the Clearwire Team that built the first 4G network in North America, covering more
than 130 million people.
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Stephen Bye Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Bye was appointed Chief Technology Officer in
August 2014. Mr. Bye is responsible for technology innovation and strategy at
Sprint. His team covers network architecture and standards, network and spectrum
planning, RAN and core network and technology development, field integration,
testing, access and roaming. Mr. Bye has more than 22 years of engineering,
operations, product development, business planning and marketing experience with
telecom, cable and wireless service providers. Prior to joining Sprint, Mr. Bye was
vice president of Wireless at Cox Communications. He has also held executive
positions with AT&T, inCode Wireless, BellSouth International, Optus
Communications and Telstra.
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