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Leadership Bios
Leadership Bios
Listed below are biographies for Virgin Mobile USA's senior leadership team. For interview requests, please contact Jayne Wallace, jayne.wallace@virginmobileusa.com.
President, Sprint Prepaid Group
Named president of Sprint’s new Prepaid Group, Dan Schulman joined Virgin Mobile USA as founding CEO in September 2001, bringing a record of high performance in the consumer-marketing arena and almost two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has led the company from its concept stage and national launch in 2002 to become one of the nation’s top wireless carriers, with more than 5 million customers and $1.3 billion in annual sales. Virgin Mobile USA listed on the New York Stock Exchange in October, 2007. In November 2009, Virgin Mobile was acquired by Sprint for ~$800M.
Prior to joining Virgin Mobile USA, Dan served as the chief executive officer of priceline.com, where he established one of the most popular and recognized brands on the Internet, and was a primary architect in driving the company to profitability and over $1B in revenues. Before that, Dan served more than 18 years at AT&T, becoming the youngest member of the company’s most senior executive team, the AT&T Operations Group, and was President of the $22B long distance division.
Dan was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned his bachelor of arts in economics from Middlebury College and a masters in business administration, majoring in finance, from New York University. He currently serves on the board of governors of Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, and is chair of the intercollegiate athletics committee. Dan was recently named a winner of the New Jersey Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award, saluting executives’ efforts in business excellence and community improvement, and was selected by Fierce Wireless as one of the Top 25 most powerful people in the global wireless industry. He is a member of the board of directors of Symantec, where he chairs the compensation committee, and of Flextronics. He serves on the board of Autism Speaks, and the advisory committee of Greycroft, an early stage private equity company.
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John D. Feehan
Chief Financial Officer
SVP, Sprint Prepaid Group
John Feehan joined Virgin Mobile in January of 2002 as vice president of finance and was promoted to chief financial officer in August 2006. He is responsible for the company's overall financial activities and planning. Prior to joining Virgin Mobile, he served as chief financial officer of SAGE BioPharma. Feehan previously worked for Faro Pharmaceuticals as vice president - financial and operational planning and as director of finance for Stadtlander Drug Distribution Co. Feehan began his career at Price Waterhouse in Philadelphia and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. Joseph’s University.
David Messenger
Chief Administrative & Corporate Development Officer
SVP, Sprint Prepaid Group
David Messenger joined Virgin Mobile USA in 2005 and, as chief administrative officer, is responsible for customer care, customer base management, customer experience, service delivery, corporate development and human resources. Prior to joining Virgin Mobile USA, Mr. Messenger served as senior vice president of human resources for Take-Two Interactive Inc. in New York City. Mr. Messenger previously was a principal at Towers Perrin, in senior positions responsible for M&A consulting and the change management practice. Earlier Mr. Messenger worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the media and telecoms sector both in Europe and the US. He was educated at the University of Wales College Cardiff and Robinson College Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Peter Lurie
General Counsel
SVP, Sprint Prepaid Group
Peter Lurie is general counsel of Virgin Mobile USA, and, as co-founder, he played a key role in the formation and launch of the company. He has played a critical role in guiding the company from the start-up phase through its national launch and subsequently rapid growth, completing several capital transactions and an initial public offering, managing the obligations of a public company, and helping to negotiate and structure a strategic acquisition. He has broad management and strategic responsibilities and focuses on negotiating relationships with key partners, including technology, major media—he structured some of the more innovative deals in the digital media—retail, financial and manufacturing companies. Previously, Lurie served as principal of a private equity group for a German bank, which completed the first public offering of a private equity fund of funds in Europe. Prior to that, he worked on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Lurie is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review.
Bob Stohrer
VP, Marketing/Sprint Prepaid Group
Bob Stohrer joined Virgin Mobile in January, 2003 as vice president of brand and communications. Previously, he served as vice president and creative director at the National Football League (NFL), where he directed the League’s branding and marketing communications efforts. At Virgin Mobile, Stohrer has been behind Virgin Mobile’s most defining marketing campaigns – including Chrismahanukwanzakah, the Nothing to Hide naked campaign and No Seas Normal, the most awarded Hispanic campaign of 2005.
In his current role, Stohrer leads an integrated marketing team responsible for brand stewardship, demand creation and product marketing. As such, he is responsible for advertising and media campaigns, public relations, web and digital initiatives, events and partnership development including Virgin Mobile’s title sponsorship of the 2009 Circus Tour starring Britney Spears and Virgin Mobile’s pro social outreach, called the RE*Generation.
He attended the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University.
Tim Evans
Vice President, Handset Planning & Operations
Tim Evans joined Virgin Mobile USA in October of 2001 with nearly 20 years of business experience – including 16 years at AT&T. At Virgin Mobile, Tim handles all aspects of VMU’s forward and reverse logistics. This includes oversight of forecasting, procurement, and management of the company’s third party logistics provider to ensure that handsets, Top-Up cards, and POS material are purchased, packaged, and delivered to retail partners and direct customers. Tim is also responsible for billing & collections of VMU’s equipment revenues.
Prior to joining the company, Tim was a founding member and chief operating officer of Ziptone LLC, a customer service startup with a client list that included AT&T consumer services, Avis, Excite and a variety of other eBusinesses. At AT&T he worked in various operational roles including customer service, billing and collections, and data center operations. He also served as a product manager for CustomNet (AT&T’s first bundled business service), led strategic pricing for AT&T consumer markets, and held several other strategic roles including business planning and results reporting. Tim has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton, and an M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern School of Business.