Jorge E. Gracia Named Sprint Senior Vice President and General Counsel
November 23 2015 - 3:50PM
Business Wire
Gracia to replace Charles Wunsch who will leave
the company in January, 2016
Jorge Gracia, 50, will join Sprint (NYSE: S) as senior vice
president and general counsel effective January 2, 2016. Gracia
replaces Charles Wunsch, who held the position since 2008 and will
leave Sprint January 29, 2016, after ensuring a smooth transition
to Gracia.
As a member of the Sprint leadership team, Gracia will be the
principal in-house lawyer for Sprint providing advice and counsel
on issues of overarching importance to Sprint and will assist in
setting and implementing the company’s overall strategic direction.
He will report to CEO Marcelo Claure.
“Jorge is an accomplished attorney and a seasoned business
strategist,” Claure said. “He is experienced in building
high-performing teams and tenaciously leading them to pursue
resolution to complex issues. Those skills are a perfect fit for
Sprint and I am confident he will be a great addition to our team
leading Sprint’s transformation.”
Gracia has 25 years’ experience in international corporate law,
most recently with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., where he
served as senior vice president and general counsel since 2013. He
previously spent 17 years at Alcatel-Lucent where he held a series
of positions, each with increasing responsibility. He last served
as deputy general counsel – global commercial law, in which Gracia
led a team of approximately 200 professionals supporting all
commercial matters, including serving as general counsel for global
sales and marketing, the team responsible for worldwide
revenue-generating activities.
“The opportunity to work alongside Marcelo and Sprint’s leaders
to turn the company around offers a perfect combination of
challenge and reward, and is one I look forward to immensely,”
Gracia said. “With Sprint’s well-known brand, enviable assets and
strong leadership, I am convinced we have the key elements to be
successful.”
Among the varied roles Gracia held during his 17 years at
Alcatel-Lucent, he served as corporate counsel for the company’s
two largest business teams, SBC and Bell South, both now part of
AT&T, and held roles as law vice president for various business
functions including Lucent’s Worldwide Services Group. He was also
general counsel, North America, following Lucent’s merger with
Alcatel, in which he handled all legal aspects of
telecommunications infrastructure and high-technology transactions
for the company’s largest revenue-generating region.
Gracia received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration
from Florida International University and earned a juris doctor
with honors from the University of Miami School of Law.
Gracia and his family will relocate from New Jersey to Kansas
City.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that
creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things
they care about most. Sprint served more than 57 million
connections as of June 30, 2015 and is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
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