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Purvish C. Kothari. Mr. Kothari joined EchoStar in March 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer. Mr. Kothari oversees the enterprise technology applications for EchoStar. From 1998 until he
joined EchoStar in 1999, Mr. Kothari was Vice President of Information Systems at Tricon Global Restaurants where
his primary duties included providing technological leadership for developing and implementing integrated Information
System initiatives for Tricon Next Generation Systems. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Kothari was Vice President of
Operations Information Systems and Strategy at Coors Brewing Company. His primary duties included overall
management of business application systems, manufacturing support systems, strategic initiatives and other areas.
From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Kothari served as Vice President of New Products/New Ventures, Engineering Systems and
Quality at Teledyne Water Pik, where his duties included profit and loss responsibility for directing and planning of
new products as well as the quality and engineering initiatives for the organization. Prior to joining Teledyne Water
Pik Mr. Kothari served as Vice President of Quality and Education at US West Marketing Resource Group. Mr.
Kothari’s primary responsibilities included increasing quality, customer satisfaction and shareholder value.
There are no family relationships among the executive officers and directors of EchoStar or arrangements or
understandings between any executive officer and any other person pursuant to which any executive officer was
selected as such. Pursuant to the Bylaws of EchoStar, executive officers serve at the discretion of the Board of
Directors.
Item 2. Properties
The following table sets forth certain information concerning our material properties:
Description/Use/Location
Segment(s) Using
Property
Approximate
Square Footage
Owned or
Leased
Corporate headquarters and customer service
center, Littleton, Colorado ................................. All 156,000 Owned
EchoStar Technologies Corporation office and
distribution center, Englewood, Colorado......... ETC 155,000 Owned
Warehouse and distribution center, Denver,
Colorado............................................................. ETC 132,800 Leased
Customer service center, El Paso, Texas................ DISH Network 100,000 Leased
Customer service center, McKeesport,
Pennsylvania....................................................... DISH Network 100,000 Leased
Digital broadcast operations center, Gilbert, AZ.... DISH Network
and Satellite
Services 120,000 Owned
Office and distribution center, Sacramento,
California............................................................ ETC 78,500 Owned
Digital broadcast operations center, Cheyenne,
Wyoming............................................................
DISH Network
and Satellite
Services 55,000 Owned
Customer service center, Thornton, Colorado........ DISH Network 55,000 Owned
European headquarters and warehouse, Almelo,
The Netherlands ................................................. ETC and Other 53,800 Owned
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
DirecTV
During February 2000 EchoStar filed suit against DirecTV and Thomson Consumer Electronics/RCA in the
Federal District Court of Colorado. The suit alleges that DirecTV has utilized improper conduct in order to fend off
competition from the DISH Network. According to the complaint, DirecTV has demanded that certain retailers stop
displaying EchoStar merchandise and has threatened to cause economic damage to retailers if they continued to offer