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WildBlue Announces Appointment of New President and COO
Denver - Nov 25, 2003 WildBlue Communications, Inc., an emerging wireless broadband company, announced today the appointment of Ken Carroll to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. Approved by the company's Board of Directors, Mr. Carroll is responsible for establishing the company's operational and sales structures in preparation for WildBlue's service launch next year. The company has plans to deliver a two-way wireless broadband service via satellite, direct to homes and small offices throughout the contiguous United States, beginning in the second half of 2004. Mr. Carroll joins WildBlue from his position as President and Chief Financial Officer at Liberty Satellite & Technology, Inc., where he spent 4 years managing the operations and finances of the satellite company. Mr. Carroll previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PRIMESTAR, Inc., a satellite TV service purchased by DirecTV in 2000. Mr. Carroll had been a member of WildBlue's Board of Directors prior to his appointment as President. "After being supportive as a Board member for several years, it is the right time to have Ken join the WildBlue team full time as we prepare in earnest for our service launch next year," said Tom Moore, Chief Executive Officer of WildBlue. "Ken brings with him developed financial and operational expertise in both the telecommunications and satellite industries, which will be very valuable in the continued building of our infrastructure and services." "WildBlue has a dynamic and innovative team that I am excited to be a part of," said Carroll. "In this highly competitive environment, we'll be focusing our efforts on an economical package of broadband services that will be available to the rural communities across the country, bringing the benefits of broadband, access via satellite to homes and businesses that aren't currently part of a core market." WildBlue is expected to be the first to launch a commercial service using the Ka-band spot beam satellite technology designed to lower the cost of providing consumers high-speed Internet access via satellite. The WildBlue system will also utilize terrestrial cable modem technology, resulting in lower customer equipment and installation costs -- a critical requirement in satellite-based consumer services. WildBlue's service is designed to be especially appealing to the millions of homes and small offices in small cities and rural America that lack access to DSL or cable modem service. WildBlue has also augmented its management team with several key hires. Jim Elliot has been hired as Vice President of Infrastructure, responsible for meeting WildBlue's system procurement and implementation goals through contractual and technical management of the space segment, ground segment gateways and customer premise equipment. In addition, Mr. Elliot is responsible for WildBlue's import/export compliance. Mr. Elliot comes to WildBlue from Ball Aerospace's Commercial Space Operations business unit. Prior to that, Mr. Elliot was a Program Manager with Lockheed Martin for 12 years, covering 11 Atlas commercial launch missions. Thad Mazurczyk has been hired as Vice President of Engineering, responsible for all engineering functions at WildBlue. Mr. Mazurczyk was previously Senior Vice President of Technology for High Speed Access Corp. Mr. Mazurczyk also spent more than nine years as the Vice President of Engineering at PRIMESTAR. WildBlue has hired Randy Thompson as Vice President of Space Systems, responsible for WildBlue's satellites, satellite launch services and satellite management systems. Mr. Thompson comes to WildBlue from Liberty Satellite, where he held the position of Vice President of Advanced Technology. Prior to this position, Mr. Thompson spent 17 years working for Raytheon Corporation (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company). Also joining WildBlue are Patrick Bailey as Director of Information Technology, Joe Ducey as Gateway Director and Lisa Gillenwaters as Director of Operations Analysis. Denver-based WildBlue Communications, Inc. was established in 1997 to accelerate consumer broadband access to the Internet in smaller cities and throughout rural America. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links WildBlue Communications SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Satellite-based Internet technologies
iPod Dominance A Mirage
Chicago (UPI) Jan 09, 2006Though Apple Computer has reported remarkable success with its iPod - sales rose by 250 percent during the last fiscal year - there is some competition coming this week for the developer of the world's most famous, legitimate music downloading network, experts tell United Press International's Networking. |
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