Some Amp’d Exec Team Members Leave; Proposed COO Loses Court Case

Amp’d Mobile, the much-hyped MVNO, has seen at least three of its senior executives leave recently, and its new COO is in trouble on a non-compete issue with T-Mobile. She, in all probabilities, will not end up joining the company.
All of this before the company has launched its service.
Its new COO, Sue Swenson, who was the former COO at T-Mobile USA, is in trouble…in Seattle, a judge granted T-Mobile a preliminary injunction yesterday that prohibits her from working at Amp’d until the issue has been resolved, according to this story. The employment agreements stipulated Swenson could not work at competitors for a year and that she could not disclose confidential material to third parties after leaving T-Mobile.
The judge said that T-Mobile is indeed a competitor with Amp’d. Then’s there was the issue of a $13 million bond Swenson is requesting, that will act as a security deposit in case the injunction is reversed at trial….details of which don’t understand much, but it is in this story. Before she joined T-Mobile USA, Swenson was CEO of Leap Wireless in San Diego for five years. And prior to that, she was CEO of Cellular One of San Francisco.
MocoNews.net has also learned that among the recent senior executives to leave the company include:
— Don McGuire, who was the CMO, had left, though I’m not sure for where.
— Steve Stanford, who was the first marketing head at Amp’d, left to join the luxury MVNO Voce, as the CEO.
— Stephanie Henning, who headed Amp’d music and entertainment group also left and has joined Fox
— An executive recruiter in the mobile industry who I spoke to yesterday told me that he has seen a number of resumes from the company come his way too.
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