Daniel Hesse

Daniel Hesse
Hesse at Capitol Hill filing lawsuit to block AT&T T-Mobile merger in 2011.
Born	1953 (age 63–64)
Nationality	United States
Education	University of Notre Dame (B.A.) Cornell University (M.B.A.) MIT Sloan School of Management (M.S.)
Predecessor	Gary D. Forsee
Successor	Marcelo Claure
Board member of	CTIA Boys and Girls Clubs of America

Daniel R. Hesse (born c. 1953) is the former chief executive officer of Sprint Corporation. He was also the spokesperson, as the voice in Sprint's "Simply Everything" commercials.

Hesse's father was a career army officer and he spent his early years going from army base to army base attending 8 different schools between kindergarten in Italy before graduating Stuttgart American High School.

He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in government and liberal studies in 1975; an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1977; and master's of science from the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow in 1989.

He spent 23 years at AT&T where he started out as an intern.

From 1991–1995 he was President and CEO of AT&T Network Systems International based in the Netherlands.

He launched the online division's AT&T Worldnet service in February 1996 which introduced unlimited internet dial up for $20/month as long as you subscribed to AT&T's long distance services.

In May 1997 he became head of AT&T Wireless.

From March 2000 to June 2004 he was CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation.

In June 2005 Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline service – Embarq Corporation.

On December 17, 2007 he became CEO of Sprint Nextel.

During his tenure he appeared in numerous television commercials for the company, filmed in black and white, and created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. The ads were filmed in New York City.