Jim Mickey – 6/20/09
Jim Mickey has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Pocket, Mickey was the President of Movida Communications, a prepaid provider marketing to the Hispanic market. He began his career at Movida as the Sr. VP Sales and Marketing in 2006. While at Movida the company became the fastest growing MVNO in the industry. He and his team were instrumental in growing distribution at Wal-Mart by over 50% and launching Family Dollar nationally to 3500 stores.
Prior to Movida Mickey joined Sprint in 1996 as area vice president for the PCS division in Central and South Texas, an area that included San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley.
In 2000, he was promoted to region president for Sprint’s PCS division, directing sales and operations for a region responsible for over 60% of Sprint’s wireless sales operations.
In 2003, Jim was promoted to National Vice President of Retail for Sprint. In this role, he led both Headquarters and field sales/service operations representing 800+ retail stores, over 10,000 employees in a $7B business unit.
Prior to joining Sprint, Mickey spent 17 years with AT&T/SWBT in Texas, North and South Carolina. His duties included overseeing the development of their call centers, business equipment sales, long distance and data sales teams.
A San Antonio native, Mr. Mickey earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1978. Mickey has served as an officer and board member on the UTSA Alumni Association’s Board of Directors from 1998-2004. He also serves UTSA on the Athletics Advisory Board. Jim was named the Alumnus of the Year by UTSA for 2007. He is also on the Board of Directors for Texas Hearing and Service Dogs, which trains dogs to provide service to the hearing impaired and physically challenged.
Jim is married and has 3 children. He enjoys fishing, hunting, golf, and time with the family.
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