14 Facts About John Legere

John Legere was born on June 4,1958 and is an American businessman, former chief executive officer and president of T-Mobile US.

John Legere resigned as CEO following the approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.

John Legere received an Accounting BBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MS, as an Alfred P Sloan fellow, at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

John Legere completed Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.

John Legere was appointed CEO of T-Mobile US in September 2012, and has since been noted for T-Mobile's "Un-carrier" approach to contract-free wireless networks.

John Legere first worked in telecommunications at New England Telephone.

John Legere then worked as senior vice president of Dell and president and chief operations officer for Dell's Operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and president, Asia-Pacific for Dell from 1998 to February 2000.

John Legere is on the CTIA board of directors, and has been a director of the CTIA wireless internet caucus, since October 2012.

John Legere was a director of Global Crossing, from October 2001 to December 2003, and Sanrise Group and Asia Global Crossing, from April 2000 to March 2002.

John Legere is a member of the board of New York Road Runners.

In November 2019, John Legere announced via his Twitter account he would be stepping down as the CEO for T-Mobile US on April 30,2020, when his current contract expires.

John Legere joined the board of Paradise Mobile as a strategic advisor in December 2024.

John Legere was a nationally competitive runner in college and post-college and still competes in events with fellow employees.

John Legere has been a member of the corporate advisory board of the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the government relations committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong.