In his most recent executive role, Alves served as chief sales officer for Sprint Corporation, before retiring in 2013. He led 17,000 employees between the company’s consumer and business sales channels. Prior to that, Alves was president of Sprint’s $10 billion Business Markets group until 2009. He helped rebuild the company’s brand in the business market segment, overseeing its transition to becoming a wireless solutions provider, launching M2M, managed wireless services and cloud services.