Charlie Ergen co-founded EchoStar Corporation in 1980 and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer. In this role, he directs EchoStar's long-term business development and strategy and oversees the day-to-day operations of EchoStar’s Pay-TV and Wireless business units, as well as its shared services operations. A prominent leader in the satellite and telecommunications industries, Charlie has received numerous accolades for his career as an entrepreneur. He was among the 2012 class of inductees into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame and was named one of Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” and listed among Forbes "Top 10 CEOs” in 2007. In 2001, Charlie was honored as Frost & Sullivan’s “CEO of the Year in the Satellite Industry” and became the first person to win the Rocky Mountain News "Business Person of the Year” for the second time. Instrumental in the fight to allow American consumers access to local channels via satellite, he helped secure the passage of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act in 1999 and was co-founder of the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association. Charlie received his Bachelor of Science in General Business and Accounting from the University of Tennessee and his Master of Business Administration from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. An avid mountain climber and member of the Colorado Mountain Club, Charlie has climbed all of the state’s 14-thousand-foot peaks, scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina and the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal. He enjoys spending time with Candy, his wife of more than 30 years, and their five children.
Paul joined the company in 1996 as a member of the financial reporting team. He has since held various leadership positions with increasing responsibility including: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, DISH; Director of Accounting; Vice President of Accounting; and Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. During his career, he has had key roles in significant debt offerings, acquisitions and divestitures including the “spinoff” of EchoStar Corporation in 2008. Following the “spinoff,” Paul served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller for both DISH Network Corporation and EchoStar Corporation until 2012. Before joining the company, Paul was an auditor at Arthur Andersen LLP.
EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: ECHO) is a fully integrated global communications and content delivery leader and provider of technology, spectrum, engineering, manufacturing, networking services, television entertainment and connectivity, offering consumer, enterprise, operator and government solutions worldwide.
Co-founder, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, EchoStar Corporation
John joined the organization in 2007 and has served in increasing leadership roles during his tenure. He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of DISH Wireless where he was responsible for all operational aspects of DISH’s wireless business, including the deployment and management of DISH’s virtualized, O-RAN 5G broadband network, its retail wireless business, and its day-to-day activities. John also has led as Group President of Retail Wireless, Chief Operating Officer, EVP of Operations, Chief Information Officer, and VP of Application Development. He spent the first 10 years of his career working in corporate finance for DISH and other Fortune 500 companies.
In 2009, Jeff relocated to Washington, D.C., from Denver to build the company’s public policy and regulatory office from the ground up. Since then, he has overseen advocacy across all of EchoStar's diverse business lines. Notably, in 2019, Jeff and his team secured the regulatory approvals required for the company's entry into the U.S. wireless market through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. He continues to act as a key advisor to EchoStar's executive leadership on major corporate transactions and regulatory/legal strategy.
As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Paul is responsible for all aspects of the company’s finance, accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit, and supply chain departments. More specifically, these responsibilities include: budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, capital planning, financial oversight, internal and external financial reporting, technical accounting policy, income tax accounting, internal controls, and procurement.
For more than four decades, EchoStar has led the way in satellite technology, shaping global connectivity. EchoStar was founded on adventure and an unshakable desire to win. It’s what drove us to launch satellites into space when people said we couldn’t. To take on the world’s largest industrial corporation when people said we shouldn’t. And to connect millions of Americans to the TV they love when the cable companies wouldn’t.
Jeff graduated summa cum laude and first in his class at Boston University School of Law, where he was a Note Editor of the Boston University Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Classics. He makes his home in Sandy Spring, Maryland with his partner, Rachel, and daughter, Amelia.
As President, Technology & Chief Operating Officer, John Swieringa is responsible for key technology and operations across the company and its brands, including wireless network development and deployment, engineering, information technology, customer experience operations, in-home services, manufacturing, and billing and credit.
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