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1
PART III
Item 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
Directors
The names of our directors and certain biographical information concerning each of them is set forth below:
Name Age Current Tenure as Director Began Position with EchoStar
James DeFranco 52 1980 Director and Executive Vice President
Michael T. Dugan 56 2004 Director and Senior Advisor
Cantey Ergen 50 2001 Director and Employee
Charles W. Ergen 52 1980 Chairman of the Board of Directors
and Chief Executive Officer
Raymond L. Friedlob 60 1995 Director
Steven R. Goodbarn 47 2002 Director
David K. Moskowitz 47 1998 Director, Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary
C. Michael Schroeder 56 2003 Director
James DeFranco. Mr. DeFranco is one of our Executive Vice Presidents and has been one of our vice presidents
and a member of our Board of Directors (the “Board”) since our formation. During the past five years he has held
various executive officer and director positions with our subsidiaries. Mr. DeFranco co-founded EchoStar with
Charles W. Ergen and his wife Cantey Ergen in 1980.
Michael T. Dugan. Mr. Dugan is currently a senior advisor to us. Before being elected to the Board in 2004, he
was our President and Chief Operating Officer. In that capacity, Mr. Dugan had been responsible for, among other
things, all operations except legal, finance and accounting at EchoStar. Until April 2000, Mr. Dugan had been
President of EchoStar Technologies Corporation. Previously he was the Senior Vice President of the Consumer
Products Division of EchoStar. Mr. Dugan has been employed with the Company since 1990 and has previously
served as one of our directors.
Cantey Ergen. Mrs. Ergen has served on the Board since May 2001 and has had a variety of operational
responsibilities with us over the past 25 years. Mrs. Ergen has served on the board of trustees of The Children’s
Hospital of Denver since 2001 and served on the board of trustees of The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Denver
during 2000. She has also served on the advisory board of the Girl Scouts USA Mile Hi Council based in Denver
since 2000. Mrs. Ergen co-founded EchoStar with her husband Charles W. Ergen and James DeFranco in 1980.
Charles W. Ergen. Mr. Ergen has been our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since our formation.
During the past five years he has also held various executive officer and director positions with our subsidiaries.
Mr. Ergen co-founded EchoStar with his wife Cantey Ergen and James DeFranco in 1980.
Raymond L. Friedlob. Mr. Friedlob has served on the Board and as a member of our Audit Committee since
October 1995. He also served on our Executive Compensation Committee from October 1995 through December
2002 and rejoined our Compensation Committee again in 2004. In 2005, Mr. Friedlob joined the law firm of
McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, where he specializes in federal securities law, corporate law, transportation and
taxation. From 1995 to 2005, Mr. Friedlob was a member of the law firm of Friedlob Sanderson Paulson &
Tourttillott, LLC.
Steven R. Goodbarn. Mr. Goodbarn joined the Board in December 2002 and is a member of our Executive
Compensation Committee and Audit Committee, where he serves as our “audit committee financial expert.” Since
July 2002, Mr. Goodbarn has served as director and president of Secure64 Software Corporation, a company he co-
founded. Mr. Goodbarn was chief financial officer of Janus Capital Corporation from 1992 until late 2000. During
that time, he was a member of the executive committee and served on the board of directors of many Janus corporate