E189: Dan Hesse - A Unique Perspective on Business Leadership

Learn More about Dan at:  www.danhesse.com 


 


Dan Hesse currently serves as Chairman of Akamai Technologies
(NASDAQ:AKAM) and as a board member of PNC Financial Services
Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) where he chairs the Technology Committee.


Dan served as President and CEO of Sprint Corporation from
December 2007 to August 2014. Previously, Hesse was the Chairman
and CEO of Embarq Corporation, Chairman, President and CEO of
Terabeam Corporation, and he spent 23 years at AT&T, where
from 1997 – 2000, he served as the President and CEO of AT&T
Wireless Services, at the time the United States’ largest
wireless carrier.


He received a BA from Notre Dame, an MBA from Cornell, and an MS
from MIT where he was awarded the Brooks Thesis Prize.


In addition to receiving Corporate Responsibility magazine’s
Lifetime Achievement Award, he has been named “Most Influential
Person in Mobile Technology” by LAPTOP magazine (Steve Jobs was
#2), Wireless Industry “Person of the Year” by RCR magazine,
“Executive of the Year” by Wireless Business and Technology
magazine, “CEO of the Year” by the National Eagle Leadership
Institute, “Kansas City’s Best CEO” in a readership poll by
Ingram’s Magazine, one of the five “Best Turnaround CEO’s of All
Time” by Fierce Wireless, one of “10 Inspirational Leaders who
Turned Around Their Companies” by Entrepreneur magazine, and he
has twice received Wireless Week magazine’s Leadership Award.
Glassdoor regularly named Hesse one of America’s highest rated
CEO’s by employees. He serves on the National Board of Governors
of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and on the board of
directors of the JUST Capital Foundation.


The 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index recognized Sprint
as the most improved U.S. company in overall customer
satisfaction, across all 43 industries, over the previous six
years. During Dan’s years at Sprint, the company was recognized
20 times by J.D. Power and Associates for excellence in customer
service, and the Reputation Institute recognized Sprint as the
most improved company in overall corporate reputation among all
of the 1,500 largest global public companies it evaluates. For
his last two full calendar years as CEO, Sprint’s Total
Shareholder Return, assuming reinvested dividends, ranked #1
among all S&P 500 companies (Netflix was #2).


Inducted into the Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame in
2022.


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