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WEBSITE ACCESS
Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or
furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act also may be accessed free of charge through our website as soon as
reasonably practicable after we have electronically filed such material with, or furnished it to, the SEC. The address of that website is
http://www.echostar.com .
We have adopted a written code of ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees, including our principal executive officer
and senior financial officers, in accordance with Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange
Commission promulgated thereunder. Our code of ethics is available on our corporate website at www.echostar.com . In the event that we
make changes in, or provide waivers of, the provisions of this code of ethics that the SEC requires us to disclose, we intend to disclose these
events on our website.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
(furnished in accordance with Item 401 (b) of Regulation S-K, pursuant to General Instruction G(3) of Form 10-K)
The following table sets forth the name, age and offices with EchoStar of each of our executive officers, the period during which each
executive officer has served as such, and each executive officer’s business experience during the past five years:
Charles W. Ergen. Mr. Ergen has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of EchoStar since its formation and,
during the past five years, has held various executive officer and director positions with EchoStar’s subsidiaries. Mr. Ergen, along with his
spouse and James DeFranco, was a co-founder of EchoStar in 1980.
Thomas A. Cullen. Mr. Cullen joined EchoStar in December 2006 as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Before joining
EchoStar, Cullen served as President of TensorComm, a venture-backed wireless technology company. From August 2003 to April 2005,
Mr. Cullen was with Charter Communications, serving as Senior Vice President, Advanced Services and Business Development from
August 2003 until he was promoted to Executive Vice President in August 2004. From January 2001 to October 2002, Mr. Cullen was General
Partner of Lone Tree Capital, a private equity partnership focused on investment opportunities in the technology and communications sector.
O. Nolan Daines. Mr. Daines is currently the Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. He joined Echostar in September 2002 and
served as a Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President of Information Technology and Broadband until December 2005 and was
responsible for EchoStar’s broadband initiatives including strategic alliances with telecommunication partners. Mr. Daines served on
EchoStar’s Board of Directors and its Audit Committee from March 1998 until September 2002. In addition, until May 2002, Mr. Daines
served as a member of EchoStar’s Executive Compensation Committee.
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Name
Age
Position
Charles W. Ergen
54
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Thomas A. Cullen
47
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
O. Nolan Daines
47
Executive Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
James DeFranco
54
Executive Vice President, Sales & Distribution and Director
Bernard L. Han
42
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mark W. Jackson
46
President, EchoStar Technologies Corporation
Michael Kelly
45
Executive Vice President, Commercial and Business Services
Carol J. Kline
42
Executive Vice President, Operations
David K. Moskowitz
48
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Director
David J. Rayner
49
Executive Vice President, Installation and Service Network
Steven B. Schaver
52
President, EchoStar International Corporation
Carl E. Vogel
49
Vice Chairman, President and Director
Stephen W. Wood
48
Executive Vice President of Human Resources