Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere leaves board weeks earlier than expected
T-Mobile’s John Legere (right) handed over management to Mike Sievert (left) on April 1st.
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Former John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, has left the airline’s board of directors more than a month earlier than planned “to pursue other options”. Legere informed the board on Friday that it would resign with immediate effect, according to a SEC report. To Resignation as CEO of T-Mobile on April 1stLegere should be a member of the Board of Directors by June 4.
“Legere noted that he did not resign because he disagreed with management or the board on any matter,” said T-Mobile in the file.
Legere said in his message to the company that he remains “the biggest fan of T-Mobile”.
“It has been a privilege and honor to have been T-Mobile’s CEO and Board of Directors for the past seven and a half years,” he said. Legere called it “really the end of an era” in a tweet Friday afternoon.
He then stepped down as CEO T-Mobile’s $ 26.5 billion Sprint merger went through. Mike Sievert took over management of T-Mobile a month earlier because Legere had previously planned to step down on May 1st.
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How T-Mobile deals with life according to John Legere
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