PRESS RELEASE
BELLEVUE, Wash. — T-Cell (NASDAQ: TMUS) at present introduced that it has named present Chief Working Officer Srini Gopalan as T-Cell’s subsequent Chief Government Officer, efficient November 1, 2025. Gopalan will assume the function from Mike Sievert, who has been appointed to a newly created administration place at T-Cell, Vice Chairman.
As Vice Chairman, Sievert will proceed in a administration function and on the Board, to help T-Cell’s CEO and management workforce, advising on issues of long-term technique, innovation, expertise improvement and exterior relations. This transition is according to the Board’s complete succession planning course of to proceed T-Cell’s development technique and the following period of Un-carrier management.
T-Cell ‘s Mike Sievert and Srini Gopalan on the New York Inventory Trade on Sept. 22 for an look on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Avenue” following the announcement of Sievert handing the CEO reins over to Gopalan beginning Nov. 1
“I couldn’t be extra excited to announce Srini Gopalan as our subsequent CEO,” mentioned Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Cell. “After I recruited Srini to be our COO, I knew he had the abilities, expertise and Un-carrier mindset to guide our firm into the longer term. Srini has been an unimaginable associate in shaping the way forward for T-Cell in addition to instrumental in main our report development this yr and driving initiatives to serve prospects in new methods and win them for all times. One truth has turn out to be crystal clear: Srini is able to lead. He’s extremely expert, passionate and extremely educated, and above all he’s obsessive about taking our worker and buyer expertise to the following degree. I’ve full belief and confidence in his imaginative and prescient for T-Cell, and the Un-carrier’s means to innovate to an excellent better extent below his management.”
“I’m honored and grateful for the belief Mike and the Board have positioned in me, and for the chance to guide T-Cell’s subsequent chapter,” mentioned Srini Gopalan, Chief Working Officer and T-Cell’s subsequent CEO. “Mike has carried out an outstanding job remodeling T-Cell into the world’s most profitable telecom and a disruptive innovator for patrons. By nearly each attainable metric, T-Cell is best, stronger and sooner at present than when Mike took the helm almost six years in the past. I’m so grateful for Mike’s partnership and mentorship and am dedicated to constructing on his legacy of placing the client first — whereas disrupting the business — as we proceed to scale our successful Un-carrier technique.”
Gopalan joined T-Cell as Chief Working Officer, an appointment made by Sievert and the Board following a well-established, multi-year succession planning course of. Since that point, Gopalan has labored alongside Sievert and T-Cell’s management workforce to ship extraordinary outcomes, whereas finishing a number of acquisitions that deliver new 5G and fiber community entry to communities throughout the nation and setting the stage for brand new development vectors in adjoining markets — all with a singular focus: fixing buyer ache factors.
Gopalan brings intensive know-how experience to the CEO function, powered by a customer-centric imaginative and prescient for driving development by way of innovation and know-how transformation. Earlier than T-Cell, he was most just lately CEO of Deutsche Telekom’s Germany enterprise, the place he doubled the corporate’s development charge, scaled its fiber enterprise to thousands and thousands of houses and achieved report cell market share whereas incomes market-leading buyer satisfaction scores. He beforehand held senior management roles at Bharti Airtel, Capital One and Vodafone. In his present function as T-Cell’s COO, Gopalan has led everything of the corporate’s Expertise, Shopper and Enterprise teams. Gopalan is spearheading T-Cell’s strategic initiative to turn out to be probably the most data-driven, AI-enabled, digital-first firm within the business bringing distinctive experiences to Un-carrier prospects and advancing the corporate’s management in 5G and next-generation cell networks.
“Our tradition and model have made us probably the most admired and customer-centric firm in our business. What lies forward of us is much more thrilling as a result of during the last 5 years, we’ve constructed America’s greatest community along with digital and AI capabilities which are far forward of anybody else in our business,” continued Gopalan. “Clients not must make tradeoffs — at T-Cell they get the very best community, worth and expertise — all on the similar time. This may allow superior development and taking share in each class we function in it as we unleash the Un-carrier!”
“Due to Mike’s daring imaginative and prescient and profitable management, T-Cell is the envy of an business it has modified for the higher by driving distinctive worth for traders whereas reinventing once more how corporations serve prospects and workers,” mentioned Tim Höttges, Deutsche Telekom CEO and Chairman of the Board of T-Cell US. “I’ve had the privilege of working immediately with Srini, and I’ve seen firsthand his confirmed means to show imaginative and prescient into actuality. He has the dedication, experience, ardour and empathy to be a implausible CEO for probably the most revolutionary firm within the business. On behalf of the Board, I provide our deepest gratitude to Mike for a outstanding tenure and our full confidence to Srini as he leads T-Cell into its subsequent period.”
Below Sievert’s management, T-Cell grew to become the primary and solely firm to guide in each U.S. wi-fi and broadband development — including tens of thousands and thousands of consumers at charges unmatched by any competitor in U.S. historical past. Throughout the identical interval, T-Cell additionally added greater than $200 billion in market capitalization — making it the world’s most precious telecommunications firm. Sievert arms the reins to Gopalan because the Un-carrier embarks on its subsequent chapter of development by way of scaling buyer experiences, continued business disruption and accelerated digital transformation.
T-Cell ‘s Mike Sievert and Srini Gopalan on the New York Inventory Trade on Sept. 22 for an look on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Avenue” following the announcement of Sievert handing the CEO reins over to Gopalan beginning Nov. 1
About T-Cell US, Inc.
Because the supercharged Un-carrier, T-Cell US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is powered by an award-winning 5G community that connects extra folks, in additional locations, than ever earlier than. With T-Cell’s distinctive worth proposition of greatest community, greatest worth and greatest experiences, the Un-carrier is redefining connectivity and fueling competitors whereas persevering with to drive the following wave of innovation in wi-fi and past. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., T-Cell gives companies by way of its subsidiaries and operates its flagship manufacturers, T-Cell, Metro by T-Cell and Mint Cell. For extra info, go to https://www.t-mobile.com.
