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Table of Contents
Name Business Experience
Current
Position
Held
Since Age
John Saw Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Saw was appointed as Chief Technology Officer in August 2015. Previously he
was Chief Network Officer and Senior Vice President, Technology Architecture. 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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Roger Sole Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Sole was appointed Chief Marketing Officer in January 2016. From May 2015
until December 2015, Mr. Sole served as Senior Vice President of Marketing, Innovation, and Hispanic Market.
From August 2011 until May 2015, Mr. Sole served as the Chief Marketing Officer of TIM Brasil. Under his
leadership, TIM Brasil, Telecom Italia's mobile carrier in Brazil, emerged as that country’s fastest growing
mobile operator by introducing new offers and services and providing innovative ways for customers to get new
smartphones. Mr. Sole helped grow TIM Brasil to become the top seller of smartphones in Brazil with a 40%
market share and nearly 75 million customers.
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Dow Draper President - Global Wholesale and Prepaid Services. Mr. Draper was appointed President - Global Wholesale
and Prepaid Services in September 2013. Mr. Draper manages the sales and marketing for Sprint's prepaid
brands, Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile and Assurance Wireless as well as Sprint's overall Wholesale
business. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Retail for CLEAR, the retail brand
of Clearwire, where he oversaw the brand's sales, marketing, customer care and product development. He
served in various executive positions at Clearwire since 2009. Before joining Clearwire, Mr. Draper held
various roles at Alltel Wireless, including senior vice president of Voice & Data Solutions and senior vice
president of Financial Planning and Analysis. He has also held various roles at Western Wireless and McKinsey
& Company.
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Jaime Jones President, South Area. Mr. Jones was appointed President, South Area in November 2015 and covers 10
Southern states and Central Texas. Based in Atlanta, Mr. Jones is responsible for sales strategy and execution,
network oversight, customer service, marketing communications and general operations. Previously, Mr. Jones
was appointed as President, Postpaid and General Business in August 2014. Before being named to this role,
Mr. Jones was responsible for the consumer sales strategy, distribution and customer experience for Sprint's
Postpaid and Prepaid product brands. Mr. Jones has also served Sprint as senior vice president for the General
Business and Public Sector organizations, as well as numerous vice president roles at the area, regional and
national levels for Local, Emerging and Mid-Markets and General Business units. Mr. Jones has more than 30
years of experience with technology companies, including management and operations roles for Siemens
Communications Inc. (formerly IBM, ROLM Systems Division) and Harris/3MCentral Penn Office Products
Inc. (formerly 3M Copying Products Division).
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Jorge Gracia Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer. Mr. Gracia was appointed to his position in
January 2016. He oversees all strategic, transactional, dispute, and preventative legal and government affairs
matters, provides advice to the board and senior management on various matters, and has responsibility for
ethics training and legal compliance. Mr. Gracia has over 25 years of experience in international corporate law,
most recently with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President and General
Counsel from October 2013 until December 2015. Mr. Gracia previously spent 17 years at Alcatel-Lucent,
where he held a series of positions, each with increasing responsibility. Mr. Gracia last served as Deputy
General Counsel - Global Commercial Law, a role in which he led an international team of approximately 200
professionals supporting all commercial matters, including serving as general counsel for global sales and
marketing, the team responsible for worldwide revenue-generating activities.
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