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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.dishnetwork.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 http://www.dishnetwork.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 DISH Network 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:
Name Age Position
Charles W. Ergen............
.
56 Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
W. Erik Carlson ..............
39 Executive Vice President, Operations
Thomas A. Cullen...........
.
49 Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
James DeFranco..............
56
Executive Vice President, Sales & Distribution, Travel/Events and Marketing, and
Director
R. Stanton Dodge............
.
41 Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Bernard L. Han ...............
.
44 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Michael Kelly .................
.
47 Executive Vice President, Commercial and Business Development
Carl E. Vogel ..................
.
51 Vice Chairman and Director
Stephen W. Wood...........
.
50 Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Charles W. Ergen. Mr. Ergen has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of DISH
Network since its formation and, during the past five years, has held various executive officer and director positions
with DISH Network’s subsidiaries. Mr. Ergen also serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
EchoStar. Mr. Ergen was appointed President of DISH Network in February 2008. Mr. Ergen, along with his
spouse, Cantey Ergen, and James DeFranco, was a co-founder of DISH Network in 1980.
W. Erik Carlson. Mr. Carlson was named Executive Vice President, Operations in February 2008 and is responsible
for overseeing our home and commercial installations, customer service centers, internal customer billing and
equipment retrieval and refurbishment operations. Mr. Carlson previously was Senior Vice President of Retail
Services, a position he held since mid-2006. He joined DISH Network in 1995 and has held progressively larger
operating roles over the years.
Thomas A. Cullen. Mr. Cullen has served as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Development since December
2006. Before joining DISH Network, Mr. Cullen served as President of TensorComm, a venture-backed wireless
technology company. From August 2003 to April 2005, Mr. Cullen was with Charter Communications Inc.
(“Charter”), 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.