Mike Sievert
Michael Sievert is the president and CEO of T-Mobile US, and a member of the company's board of directors.[2][1][3] In November 2019, T-Mobile announced that Sievert, then-COO, would become the CEO of the company in May 2020.[1] Sievert ultimately entered the position a month earlier, on April 1, 2020.
Mike Sievert | |
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Born | 1968/1969 (age 50–51)[1] Canton, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) |
Title | CEO of T-Mobile US |
Term | April 1, 2020 – present |
Sievert started his career at Procter & Gamble.[2] He subsequently worked at IBM[2] and Clearwire.[4] He was also executive vice president (EVP) and chief global marketing and sales officer at E-Trade[5][6] and CEO of tablet gaming company Discovery Bay Games.[7] From 2002 to 2005, Sievert was EVP and CMO of AT&T Wireless.[8] He joined Microsoft's Global Windows Group as CVP of product management in 2005, leading preparations for the release of Longhorn (later called Windows Vista).[9][5] In 2008 he co-founded Switchbox Labs,[8] a startup acquired by Lenovo in 2009.[10] In 2012, John Legere, T-Mobile's then-new CEO, hired Sievert as CMO.[11]
Sievert became COO of T-Mobile in 2015,[12] and then became the company's president in 2018.[3][13] In October 2017, he joined the board of Canadian company Shaw Communications.[14] Sievert decided to pull all T-Mobile advertisements from Tucker Carlson Tonight because of rhetoric that criticized the Black Lives Matter movement. When announcing the move, Sievert tweeted, "Bye-bye, Tucker Carlson!"[15][16]
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- McDermott, John (20 November 2012). "T-Mobile Names Tech-Marketing Veteran as CMO". AdAge. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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- Orlowski, Andrew (18 March 2005). "New Microsoft Longhorn chief is indigestion expert". The Register. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- Shah, Agam (28 January 2009). "Lenovo buys mystery start-up company". Computerworld. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- Manskar, Noah (18 November 2019). "T-Mobile CEO John Legere is stepping down". New York Post. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- Fried, Ina (18 February 2015). "T-Mobile Promotes Mike Sievert to COO, Andrew Sherrard to Marketing Chief". Vox. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- Kastrenakes, Jacob (18 November 2019). "John Legere will step down as T-Mobile CEO next year". The Verge. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- Aycock, Jason (26 October 2017). "Shaw adds to wireless focus, adding T-Mobile's Sievert to board". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- Sievert, Mike [@MikeSievert] (9 June 2020). "Same. We aren't running ads on that show and we won't be running ads on that show in the future. Bye-bye, Tucker Carlson!" (Tweet). Retrieved 12 June 2020 – via Twitter.
- Gibson, Kate (12 June 2020). ""Bye-bye Tucker Carlson!" T-Mobile CEO says as advertisers drop Fox News show". CBS News. Retrieved 12 June 2020.