Total Compensation: $ 4.14 M
Nathaniel A. Davis has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 1999, as President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2006 to August 2007, and as President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2007. He was formerly managing director of Rannd Advisors, Oakton, Virginia. Until May 2003, Mr. Davis was President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the board of directors of XO Communications Inc., formerly Nextlink Communications Inc. From October 1998 to December 1999, he was Executive Vice President of Nextel Communications where he had responsibility for the technical and engineering operations of Nextel"s nationwide switching and wireless communications network, billing and information technology systems. From August 1986 through September 1998, Mr. Davis served in a variety of senior engineering and finance roles at MCI, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MCI Telecommunications. Mr. Davis serves on the board of directors of Mutual of America Capital Management Corporation and Charter Communications.
Total Compensation: $ 2.35 M
Joseph J. Euteneuer has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since June 2002. Previously, Mr. Euteneuer was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Broadnet Europe, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Euteneuer joined Comcast in 1989 and served as its Vice President & Corporate Controller prior to joining Broadnet Europe. Mr. Euteneuer is a certified public accountant.
Total Compensation: $ —
Joseph M. Titlebaum has served as our General Counsel and Secretary since September 1998. From 1990 to 1998, Mr. Titlebaum was an attorney with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. With a specialty in telecommunications ventures, Mr. Titlebaum has expertise in structuring, negotiating and implementing corporate finance, intellectual property and mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Vernon Irvin - Executive VP, Divisional/Other Executive Officer
Total Compensation: $ 2.48 M
Vernon Irvin has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer since November 2006. Previously, Mr. Irvin was Executive Vice President and General Manager for the communications services group of Verisign from 2003 to 2006. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Irvin served as Executive Vice President, Communications, Media and Entertainment for American Management Systems.
Total Compensation: $ —
John W. Mendel has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2005. Mr. Mendel is Senior Vice President, automobile operations of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., responsible for Product Planning, Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations and Distribution for both Honda and Acura Automobile Divisions. Prior to joining American Honda in December 2004, Mr. Mendel served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Mazda North American Operations from January 2002 until November 2004. From 1976 to 2002, Mr. Mendel held numerous sales and marketing and management positions within Ford and Lincoln Mercury Divisions, Ford Customer Service and Ford of Europe.
Total Compensation: $ —
Jeffrey D. Zients has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2006. Mr. Zients leads an investment company that focuses on public and private small-cap companies. He served as the Chairman of the Board of The Advisory Board Company and Chairman of the Board of The Corporate Executive Board Company, two business-to-business content companies from June 2001 to November 2004 and January 2000 to April 2001, respectively. From July 1998 to June 2001, he served as Chief Executive Officer and from 1996 to July 1998 he served as Chief Operating Officer of The Advisory Board Company. Mr. Zients currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Revolution Health, a holding company investing in consumer-driven healthcare, Best Practices, a provider of emergency medicine outsourcing services and Timbuk2 Designs, a messenger bag and apparel retailer.
Total Compensation: $ —
Jarl Mohn, who has also been known as Lee Masters since his days in radio, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2004. Mr. Mohn is a private investor with over 20 years experience in radio and currently manages The Mohn Family Foundation, a philanthropic entity he and his wife created in 2000. Previously, Mr. Mohn was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Digital from January 1999 to April 2002. Prior to Liberty Digital, Mr. Mohn created E! Entertainment Television, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer for E! from January 1990 to December 1998. Before founding E!, Mr. Mohn was Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV, a cable music television network. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for E.W. Scripps Company, CNET and MobiTV.
Total Compensation: $ —
Joan L. Amble has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2006. Ms. Amble has served as Executive Vice President and Corporate Comptroller for American Express Company since December 2003. Prior to joining American Express, Ms. Amble served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of GE Capital Markets, a service business within GE Capital Services, Inc., overseeing securitizations, debt placements and syndication, as well as structured equity transactions for General Electric Company business. From 1994 to March 2003, Ms. Amble served as vice president and controller for GE Capital.
Total Compensation: $ —
Eddy W. Hartenstein has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2005. Mr. Hartenstein was the Vice Chairman and a member of the board of directors of The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (formerly Hughes Electronics Corporation) from December 23, 2003 until his retirement on December 31, 2004. Mr. Hartenstein served as Chairman and CEO of DIRECTV, Inc. from late 2001 to 2004 and as President of DIRECTV, Inc. from its inception in 1990 to 2001. Prior to 1990, Mr. Hartenstein served in various capacities for Hughes Communications, Inc., Equatorial Communications Services Company and Hughes Communications. Mr. Hartenstein also serves as a member of the board of directors of SanDisk Corporation, Thomson Multimedia and the Consumer Electronics Association. As of December 2005, Mr. Hartenstein also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HD Partners Acquisition Corporation.
Total Compensation: $ 5.94 M
Gary M. Parsons has served as our Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 1997 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer. He serves on the board of Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd, and is Chairman and was previously Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. Mr. Parsons was President and Chief Executive Officer of TerraStar Corporation, formerly Motient Corporation, from July 1996 to March 1998, and subsequently served as Chairman until May 2002. Previously, Mr. Parsons was with MCI Communications Corporation where he served in a variety of roles from 1990 to 1996, including Executive Vice President of MCI Communications, and as Chief Executive Officer of MCI"s subsidiary MCImetro, Inc. From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Parsons was one of the principals of Telecom*USA, which was acquired by MCI.
Total Compensation: $ —
Thomas J. Donohue has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 1999. Mr. Donohue is President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world"s largest business federation, and has been active in national policy and non-profit operations for 30 years. From July 1984 through September 1997, Mr. Donohue served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Trucking Association. He serves on the board of directors of Union Pacific Corporation, Sunrise Senior Living Corporation and Marymount University.
Total Compensation: $ —
Chester A. Huber, Jr. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2002. Mr. Huber was named President of OnStar Corporation in December 1999 and was General Manager of the OnStar Division of General Motors Corporation from June 1995 until December 1999. He has held a variety of engineering, operations and marketing roles in his 34-year career with General Motors, including General Director of Aftermarket Parts and Services, and General Director of Sales, Marketing and Product Support for the Electro-Motive Division. Mr. Huber recently served on a Federal Advisory Committee for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and currently serves on another on the Global Positioning System (GPS) convened by NASA.
Total Compensation: $ —
Jack Shaw has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 1997. Mr. Shaw served as Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Electronics Corporation from January 2000 until his retirement in December 2003 and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Hughes Network Systems, Inc. from 1987 and 1988, respectively, through January 2000. Previously, Mr. Shaw held senior management positions with companies including ITT Space Communications, Inc., Digital Communications Corporation and M/A-Com Telecommunications, Inc., which was acquired by Hughes Electronics Corporation in 1987. Mr. Shaw is a member of the Board of Directors of Globecomm Systems, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
Stephen Cook has served as our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing since February 1999 and was promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing in January 2002. Mr. Cook has served as Executive Vice President, Automotive since July 2006. Previously, Mr. Cook was Chief Operating Officer for Conxus Communications, where he successfully launched its portable voice messaging product, Pocketalk, in the top 12 United States markets. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Cook held key management positions with GTE"s cellular operations, including VP of Marketing and President of the Southeast region. Prior to that time, Mr. Cook also spent five years in brand management with Procter & Gamble and has more than 24 years of experience with launching and marketing new consumer products.
Total Compensation: $ 2.86 M
Erik Logan Toppenberg has served as Executive Vice President of Programming since August 2004. Mr. Toppenberg is a 20-year radio industry veteran and served as President of Programming at Citadel Broadcasting from July 2003 to July 2004. Mr. Toppenberg was Vice President of Programming at Infinity Broadcasting from February 2003 through July 2003. Prior to his corporate position at Infinity, Mr. Toppenberg served as Vice President, Operations at Infinity"s award-winning country radio station WUSN-FM in Chicago from April 2002 through January 2003, and was Operations Manager for various stations in Tampa, FL from 1998 through March 2002 leading WQYK-FM to the prestigious CMA Station of the Year honor in 2001. Mr. Toppenberg"s resume includes programming stints in San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee and Oklahoma City. Mr. Toppenberg also is an active member of the Country Music Association board of directors and is currently serving his fifth term.
Total Compensation: $ —
Dara F. Altman has served as our Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs since January 2006. Previously, Ms. Altman was Executive Vice President of Business Affairs for Discovery Communications from 1997 to 2005, where she oversaw all business negotiations for Discovery"s global television assets, representing expenditures of more than $750 million annually across a broad range of business activities, including its domestic television networks, Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, as well as its education business and online and commerce activities. Prior to joining Discovery Communications, Ms. Altman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Reiss Media Enterprises from 1993 to 1997, which owned Request TV, a national pay-per-view service. Before Request TV, Ms. Altman served as counsel for Home Box Office and started her career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP.
Total Compensation: $ 12.13 M
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Total Compensation: $ —
Stelios Patsiokas has served as our Senior Vice President, Technology since October 1998 and was promoted to Executive Vice President, Engineering and Technology in January 2002. Previously, Dr. Patsiokas was with Motorola, Inc., where he served in a variety of consumer electronics design and development roles since 1979. Since 1996, Dr. Patsiokas was Director of Product Development, for Motorola"s Messaging Systems Product Group, where he was involved with developing the PageWriterTM 2000 two-way messaging device. Dr. Patsiokas holds 32 United States patents.
