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Mike Sievert took over as the CEO of US telecom and 5G leader T-Mobile in April of 2020 . His predecessor , John J . Legere , was the highest-paid telecom executive in the world , with an annual take home in 2018 of $ 66.5mn in salary and stock options . Sievert has served as the head of T-Mobile ’ s board of Directors since 2018 and has held multiple executive roles since joining the company in 2012 , from Executive VP and CMO to COO and President . He has a Bachelor of Economics , Marketing and Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania . His starting salary of $ 1.4mn is expected to grow to $ 1.6mn in his third year and be accompanies by cash and stock incentives potentially totalling $ 11.5mn in the first year .

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