Daniel Hesse

Daniel Hesse
Born	1953 (age 60–61)
Nationality	USA
Education	University of Notre Dame MIT Sloan School of Management Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Occupation	CEO, Sprint Corporation
Employer	Sprint Corporation
Predecessor	Gary D. Forsee
Board member of	CTIA Boys and Girls Clubs of America

Daniel R. Hesse (born c. 1953) is the chief executive officer of Sprint Corporation. He is also the spokesperson, as he is the voice in Sprint's "Simply Everything" commercials.

Early life

Hesse's father was a career army officer and he spent his early years going from army base to army base attending 8 different schools between kindergarten in Italy before graduating Stuttgart American High School.

He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in government and liberal studies in 1975;^[1] an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1977; and master's of science from the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow in 1989.

In telecommunications

AT&T

He spent 23 years at AT&T where he started out as an intern.

From 1991–1995 he was President and CEO of AT&T Network Systems International based in the Netherlands.

He launched the online division's AT&T Worldnet service in February 1996 which introduced unlimited internet dial up for $20/month as long as you subscribed to AT&T's long distance services.^[2]

In May 1997 he became head of AT&T Wireless.^[2]

Terabeam Corporation

From March 2000 to June 2004 he was CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation.^[3]

Embarq Corporation

In June 2005 Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline service – Embarq Corporation.

Sprint

On December 17, 2007 he became CEO of Sprint Nextel.^[4]

During his tenure he appeared in numerous television commercials filmed in black and white for the company created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners that were filmed in New York City.

When Hesse took over the company was losing numerous customers, and still continue to lose customers. His strategy to stem further losses have included increased customer service, more use of prepaid cell phones, and a 4G presence invest ownership stake in WiMAX-provider Clearwire. He's also started adding 300 retail stores across the nation at an attempt for increased in-person customer service.

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