- Timothy Donahue
Tim Donahue was Executive Chairman of
Sprint Nextel . He previously served aspresident andchief executive officer of Nextel Communications Inc. He began his career withNextel in January1996 as president andchief operating officer . On October 10, 2006, Mr. Donahue announced his retirement as Chairman ofSprint Nextel effective the end of the year 2006.Nextel experienced record setting financial results under Mr. Donahue's leadership, with nine straight quarters of positive
net income . Since becoming president and CEO of Nextel, he helped build Nextel into aFortune 200 company; increasing the subscriber base to 16.2 million in2004 and significantly reducing debt. In2003 he earned $26.3 million in pay from Nextel and by June 2004 he held 1.8 million Nextel sharesref|Bischoff.Before joining Nextel, Mr. Donahue served as northeast regional president for AT&T Wireless Services operations from 1991 to 1996.
Mr. Donahue is one of twelve children.
References
# [http://mrtmag.com/mag/radio_nextel_play_ball/ Nextel should play ball] , Glenn Bischoff, 2004-06-01, accessed 2005-04-10
# [http://www2.sprint.com/mr/ex_dtl.do?id=220/ Official Biography from Nextel] , accessed 2006-03-22
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