Tom Murphy, SVP of Marketing at Sprint Dies in Rock Fall

The Denver Post reports that Tom Murphy, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Sprint Communications, died late yesterday while on vacation with his family in Colorado.

Murphy had been at Sprint since 1996 heading up the company's marketing and sponsorship strategy and was credited for many of the firm's major deals including Sprint's groundbreaking affiliations with NASCAR and the NFL.

We’d like to pass on our deepest sympathies to his entire family.