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Gary D. Forsee was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sprint Nextel Corporation and served as President of the University of Missouri... System from 2007-2011. Forsee resides in Columbia, Missouri, the headquarters of the UM System. Forsee was born in Kansas City, Missouri and received a B.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 1972. While there he became a member of The Kappa Sigma Fraternity and in 2009 he received the "Man of the Year Award" from Kappa Sigma, in recognition of his exemplary leadership. Gary Forsee succeeded William Esrey as CEO of Sprint in 2004. During his first year, he led a dramatic rise in Sprint's performance and stock price and negotiated the Sprint Nextel merger, earning him the honor of being named one of the "Best Managers" of 2004 by Business Week magazine. Together with Nextel Communications' CEO, Tim Donahue, Forsee merged the two companies in 2005 and spun off its land line business to Embarq in 2006. The merger was intended to bring together two strong brands, Sprint in consumer cellular and Nextel in business cellular, but the so-called "synergies" expected from the merger never materialized.
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