John Burris is a general manager with deep marketing, product, and business development experience earned over 16 years in wireless, technology, and new media/internet oriented companies.

John Burris was most recently the Vice President of Wireless Data at Sprint where he oversaw a $5 billion data business that led the industry in customer revenue (Data ARPU) and data usage. During John’s tenure Sprint’s data business grew from $200M to over $5B in less than five years.

At Sprint, John oversaw all content acquisition, business development, service programming and product management.  A bundle oriented marketing approach and a focus on bringing great products to market before the competition is what built Sprint’s industry leadership.

Before joining Sprint, John was a co-founder of Orbit Commerce, an eBusiness platform for the delivery of web-based applications to small and medium-sized businesses.  Orbit had numerous Fortune 500 clients and was sold to a public company (Digital River) in 2001.  He also worked several years in high-tech consulting with Andersen Consulting where he led technology teams that worked out of the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California.

John has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.