John W. Stanton

John W. Stanton is the founder and former CEO of Western Wireless Corporation, former chairman and CEO of VoiceStream Wireless, and former chairman of the CTIA. [cite web |url=http://www.wwireless.com/Default.asp?pid=12&xdir=AB |title=Western Wireless Corporate Officers |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050306001935/http://www.wwireless.com/Default.asp?pid=12&xdir=AB|archivedate=March 6, 2005 ] cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_John-Stanton_WGEH.html|title=The World's Billionaires — John Stanton|publisher=Forbes Magazine|date=March 8, 2007|accessdate=2007-06-30] John is listed as #82 in the Forbes 2001 "Richest People" study. It is estimated his net worth US$1.1 billion. John Stanton is currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he earned his undergraduate degree.cite web|url=http://www.whitman.edu/content/about/governing-boards/trustees|accessdate=2007-06-30|title=List of Board of Trustees|publisher=Whitman College] He resides in Bellevue, Washington with his wife, Theresa Gillespie.

A venture capitalist called Stanton "one of the great entrepreneurs of the American wireless industry...as great as Craig McCaw." [ cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2005/07/18/focus6.html?t=printable|accessdate=2007-12-12|title=Western Wireless' John Stanton ponders next move|publisher=Portland Business Journal|date=July 15, 2005|author= M. Sharon Baker]

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