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
Born1968/1969 (age 50–51)[1]
Canton, Ohio, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
TitleCEO of T-Mobile US
TermApril 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]

References
  1. FitzGerald, Drew (18 November 2019). "T-Mobile CEO John Legere to Step Down Next Year". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. Pritchard, Edd (29 November 2019). "T-Mobile's next CEO, Mike Sievert, is a Canton native". CantonRep. Gannett. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. Levy, Nat (14 June 2018). "T-Mobile promotes Mike Sievert to president as Sprint acquisition process continues". GeekWire. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  4. Frank, Blair Hanley (18 February 2015). "T-Mobile names Mike Sievert Chief Operating Officer". GeekWire. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  5. Rohde, Laura (1 March 2005). "Microsoft hires AT&T executive to manage Windows". Network World. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  6. Brooks, Khristopher J. (18 November 2019). "John Legere, colorful CEO of T-Mobile, to step down next year". CBS News. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  7. McDermott, John (20 November 2012). "T-Mobile Names Tech-Marketing Veteran as CMO". AdAge. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  8. DeGrasse, Martha (15 June 2018). "T-Mobile promotes Mike Sievert to president". FierceWireless. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  9. Orlowski, Andrew (18 March 2005). "New Microsoft Longhorn chief is indigestion expert". The Register. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  10. Shah, Agam (28 January 2009). "Lenovo buys mystery start-up company". Computerworld. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  11. Manskar, Noah (18 November 2019). "T-Mobile CEO John Legere is stepping down". New York Post. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  12. Fried, Ina (18 February 2015). "T-Mobile Promotes Mike Sievert to COO, Andrew Sherrard to Marketing Chief". Vox. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  13. Kastrenakes, Jacob (18 November 2019). "John Legere will step down as T-Mobile CEO next year". The Verge. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  14. Aycock, Jason (26 October 2017). "Shaw adds to wireless focus, adding T-Mobile's Sievert to board". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
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