Atish Gude serves as the senior vice president of Mobile Broadband Operations in Sprint Nextel's new 4G Mobile Broadband business unit. Sprint recently selected mobile WiMAX as the technology platform for building its next generation mobile broadband business. Atish was appointed the head of operations to build and run operations. In this role, he is responsible for building the network and operations including sales, marketing, product/ service delivery, network and customer management.

Prior to this role, Atish was the senior vice president of Corporate Strategy for Sprint Nextel. Atish's team has driven the company's three year strategic plan including the company's SmartGrowth coverage strategy for managing growth and profitability, managing Sprint's Balanced Scorecard and performance metrics and developing Sprint's broadband strategy including program managing two market trials.

Atish joined Nextel in 2000 as the vice president of Strategic Planning. Prior to joining Nextel, Atish was a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting. Atish was responsible for sales, management and delivery of business transformation services (including strategy, process improvement and IT) to clients in a number of industries including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, health care and financial services.

Atish has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Virgin Mobile, USA and currently serves as a Board member of the United eWay, a subsidiary of the United Way of America.