Sprint Strengthens Prepaid Leadership Team with Addition of Industry Veteran Jim Hyde
June 29 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Hyde named president of Prepaid and Wholesale
Services
Dow Draper to lead new Virgin Mobile USA
venture
Sprint (NYSE: S) bolstered its leadership team with wireless
veteran Jim Hyde taking over the reins of the Sprint Prepaid Group.
Dow Draper moves to a new role, leading the exciting new Virgin
Mobile USA endeavor.
As president of Prepaid and Wholesale Services, Hyde is
responsible for developing and driving the prepaid strategy and
business across the Boost Mobile and Sprint Prepaid platforms and
the legacy Virgin Mobile business. He will also manage the
relationships with Sprint’s Wholesale and Mobile Virtual Network
Operator (MVNO) customers. Previously, Hyde was CEO, president and
director of nTelos Wireless, Lumos Networks and was also CEO and
managing director of T-Mobile UK.
“Jim brings more than 20 years of telecommunications experience
that will benefit the entire Sprint team,” said Marcelo Claure,
Sprint president and CEO. “He is a visionary leader with a proven
track record of successfully transforming start-ups and
multibillion-dollar international companies to deliver
best-in-class results. I am confident that Jim will accomplish a
great deal with our prepaid brands.”
As CEO of Virgin Mobile USA, Draper will focus on the brand
evolution to launch new, groundbreaking, best-in-class services to
reach new market segments for Sprint. The company will share more
about this brand transformation in the coming months.
Before this role, Draper was president of Sprint’s Wholesale
& Prepaid Services, expanding the contract-free business with
dramatic changes to keep the company’s Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile
and Sprint Prepaid brands value-driven and competitive. In late
2014, Draper added business development for Sprint Wholesale to his
responsibilities, managing sales of Sprint’s leading-edge,
award-winning wholesale assets to hundreds of partners
worldwide.
“Dow is an inspirational leader with an extraordinary vision,”
said Claure, “which makes him the perfect fit for his new role as
CEO of Virgin Mobile USA. He and his team are charged with
transforming the Virgin brand into a disruptive force in the
wireless industry and align it more closely with the iconic global
Virgin brand.”
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served more than 58.8
million connections as of March 31, 2016, and is widely recognized
for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
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SprintDanielle Babbington,
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