Tarek Robbiati named Chief Financial
Officer;
Günther Ottendorfer appointed Chief
Operating Officer, Technology;
John Saw promoted to Chief Technology
Officer
Today Sprint (NYSE: S) announced senior leadership changes to
support the next phase of the company’s transformation.
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Tarek Robbiati, 50, is named Chief Financial Officer. Robbiati
most recently was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at
FlexiGroup Ltd., an Australian consumer finance company
specializing in leasing.
Previously he held senior executive positions, including group
managing director and deputy chief financial officer of Telstra
Corp., Australia’s leading telecommunications company, chief
executive officer at CSL Limited, the number one mobile operator in
Hong Kong and executive vice president and head of corporate
finance for Orange Plc. He will be responsible for Sprint’s
day-to-day financial operations, including financial planning,
accounting, tax, auditing, treasury and investor relations, as well
as long-term financial strategy and planning. He will report to
President and CEO Marcelo Claure when he joins Sprint in late
August.
Joseph Euteneuer, chief financial officer, will leave the
company following an orderly transition of responsibilities.
Günther Ottendorfer, 46, is joining the company as chief
operating officer, technology. Ottendorfer will arrive at Sprint
with more than 25 years of experience leading global technology
teams. He previously served as chief technology officer and a board
member for Telekom Austria Group and managing director of Optus
Singtel in Sydney Australia. Ottendorfer will join Sprint effective
immediately and will report to Claure. He will lead a newly created
Technology Office with responsibility for all network planning and
deployment functions, as well as Information Technology.
Also, as part of these changes, John Saw, Chief Network Officer,
is promoted to Chief Technology Officer, reporting to Ottendorfer.
Sprint has made significant improvements to its network under Saw’s
leadership as Chief Network Officer. Through the first half of the
year, Sprint received a total of 180 first place RootScore Awards
for overall performance, reliability, speed, data, call, or text
network performance compared with only 27 a year ago.
Before Sprint acquired Clearwire, Saw was Clearwire’s chief
technology officer. He helped build that company’s organization and
led complex and vital projects including building the first 4G
network in North America, covering more than 130 million
people.
Junichi Miyakawa, Technical Chief Operating Officer, has been
instrumental in developing the company’s network plans and will
become a senior technical adviser in the Office of the CEO and a
liaison between Softbank and Sprint for network strategy.
“One of my goals when I first arrived as CEO was to strengthen
our management team,” said Claure. “As I begin my second year here
at Sprint, I feel very good about the team we have put together to
pursue the great opportunities ahead. I couldn’t be more excited to
add talented and experienced executives like Tarek and Günther to
our leadership team. Both of these individuals are world-class
leaders with deep expertise and proven track records in exactly the
areas that will be critical to accelerating our efforts to move
Sprint forward.”
Claure continued, “Joe is an experienced and talented financial
executive, and he has been a strong partner as we have run the
business over the past year. I thank him for his service and
dedication to the company and I wish him well in his future
endeavors.”
Financing the Future at Sprint
Robbiati, an accomplished executive with extensive experience
transforming businesses around the world, will play a key role in
supporting investments the company is making to build the next
generation of its network and introduce innovative approaches that
will strengthen its competitive position.
He has more than 25 years of business and financial experience
across a number of key areas, including corporate strategy and
finance, mergers and acquisitions, treasury and balance sheet
management and new business development. He also has a proven track
record of driving shareholder value creation, strong financial
performance, deal-making and building high-performing teams.
Robbiati offers a rare combination of skills and experiences,
which include an engineer building networks, cost structure
optimization and designing complex leasing agreements. His strong
background in capital markets, treasury and balance sheet
management also will be valuable as the company works to change the
cash flow equation at Sprint.
During his time in senior operating and finance roles at
FlexiGroup, Telstra International Group, CSL Limited and Orange
Plc., he helped to successfully transform these companies,
reorganizing them, refining their strategy and making the choices
that strengthened them and positioned them to grow.
For example, while leading CSL Limited as its CEO, Robbiati
guided Telstra’s mobile subsidiary in Hong Kong through a complete
overhaul of its mobile network. The network transformation ended up
as a world-class success. At FlexiGroup, Tarek succeeded in
repositioning the business as one of the top 100 companies in
Australia and a true disruptor in the financial services sector in
Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
“Tarek is one of the most dynamic and visionary strategic
financial executives in the telecommunications and financial
services industries,” said Claure. “He is an extraordinary leader
known for his tremendous operating skills and his ability to lead
organizations through complex strategic, financial, technology and
operational challenges.”
“I am delighted to join Sprint,” said Robbiati. “Sprint has a
unique opportunity to disrupt the U.S. wireless market, and I am
eager to help Marcelo and the Sprint team change the game.”
Building the Next Generation Network
Sprint has been making substantial progress in delivering a
network with the reliability, capacity and speed customers demand.
Ottendorfer, in his capacity leading the Technology Office, will
lead the company’s efforts to build on that progress by deploying
the next generation of its wireless network. This will capitalize
on Sprint’s rich spectrum portfolio, increasing coverage and
capacity by significantly densifying the company’s network.
The company is uniting the Network and Information Technology
functions to capture tremendous advantages, including greater
efficiency in designing, rapidly deploying and scaling the next
generation network.
“Günther is a world-class innovator and he comes to us with the
rich experience of leading wireless network transformations at
telecommunications companies around the world,” said Claure. “He is
uniquely qualified to lead us in building on the momentum of our
ongoing network improvements and then moving us forward to create a
network for the future.”
Ottendorfer will arrive at Sprint with more than 25 years of
experience leading global technology teams. Most recently, as group
chief technology officer Telekom Austria Group, Ottendorfer was
responsible for driving innovation, quality and synergies in all
seven central and eastern European countries that Telekom Austria
Group serves.
At Telekom Austria Group, Ottendorfer led a number of successful
projects that included major wireless network expansion and
improvement, the introduction of new technologies and efforts to
make the organization more efficient.
Prior to that position, Ottendorfer served as managing director
networks of Optus Singtel in Sydney Australia from 2011-2013. He
also spent nine years at Deutsche Telekom working in a variety of
European countries, eventually leading network planning for all of
Deutsche Telekom’s mobile networks across Europe.
Network Virtualization is a prime example of the advanced
technology that offers the company the ability to increase the
power of its wireless network, deploy improvements rapidly, manage
it with greater flexibility and more easily introduce new services
over the network. Ottendorfer was ahead of the curve in recognizing
this technology as a future trend in the mobile industry and he
championed its use while serving as Group CTO at Telekom Austria
Group.
“I am truly honored and excited about the opportunity to join
Sprint and work in the biggest telecom market of the world,” said
Ottendorfer. “I see a tremendous amount of potential in the company
and its network. The team has established strong momentum and I
look forward to building on that.”
Robbiati and Ottendorfer will relocate to Kansas City with their
families.
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 57 million
connections as of March 31, 2015 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 four years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
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