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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.[1][2] John is listed as #82 in the Forbes 2001 "Richest People" study. It is estimated his net worth US$1.1 billion.[2] John Stanton is currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he earned his undergraduate degree.[2][3] He resides in Bellevue, Washington[3] with his wife, Theresa Gillespie.

Wireless whiz-kid now running Deutsche Telekom's U.S. operations (T-Mobile's Chairman and founder) after early 2001 sale of VoiceStream. Also still runs Western Wireless, the cell-phone company he started with wife Theresa in 1992 as Pacific Northwest Cellular. Started in cell business with Craig McCaw in 1982. Western Wireless grew by buying up smaller-market licenses, then moving uptown, spun off VoiceStream 1999. Stanton also buying into local sports scene with minority stakes in NBA SuperSonics, baseball's Mariners.[4] [5]

A venture capitalist called Stanton "one of the great entrepreneurs of the American wireless industry...as great as Craig McCaw."[6]

References

  1. ^ "Western Wireless Corporate Officers". Archived from the original on March 6, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050306001935/http://www.wwireless.com/Default.asp?pid=12&xdir=AB.  
  2. ^ a b c "The World's Billionaires — John Stanton". Forbes Magazine. March 8, 2007. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_John-Stanton_WGEH.html. Retrieved 2007-06-30.  
  3. ^ a b "List of Board of Trustees". Whitman College. http://www.whitman.edu/content/about/governing-boards/trustees. Retrieved 2007-06-30.  
  4. ^ "#746 John Stanton". http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/WGEH.html?t=printable. Retrieved 2009-05-18.  
  5. ^ "T-Mobile USA Names New CEO". http://www.t-mobile.com/company/PressReleases_Article.aspx?assetName=Prs_Prs_20030321&title=T-Mobile%20USA%20Names%20New%20CEO?t=printable. Retrieved 2009-05-18.  
  6. ^ M. Sharon Baker (July 15, 2005). "Western Wireless' John Stanton ponders next move". Portland Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2005/07/18/focus6.html?t=printable. Retrieved 2007-12-12.  







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