Benjamin G. Wolff - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICO Global Communications since December 2009. Chairman of DBSD North America since 2008, member of DBSD Board of Directors since 2005. Previously served on the Board of Directors of ICO Global Communications from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Wolff was a Co-Founder of Clearwire Corporation, where he served in a variety of capacities including as a member of the Board of Directors, as Executive Vice President, company President, Co-CEO, CEO and finally Co-Chairman, a position he held until March 2009. Mr. Wolff also serves as the President of the Eagle River group of investment companies, and serves on the board of directors of some of Eagle River’s portfolio companies.
From January 1994 until April 2004, Mr. Wolff was a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he became a partner in 1998. Mr. Wolff’s practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategic alliance transactions. While with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, he co-chaired the firm’s Business Transactions Department and served on the firm’s Executive Committee. In 2003, Mr. Wolff was identified as one of the top 45 lawyers in the country under the age of 45 by the American Lawyer magazine.
John L. Flynn - Executive
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. On May
8, 2006, Mr. Flynn became the Executive Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Company and DBSD North America.
From July 2003 until April 2006, Mr. Flynn was counsel to the law
firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where his practice
focused primarily on communications and intellectual property law.
From November 2000 until January 2003, Mr. Flynn was Vice President
and Deputy General Counsel of Commerce One, Inc., a software company,
where he co-managed the legal department and advised the company
on corporate, regulatory and litigation matters. Mr. Flynn also
served as General Counsel and Vice President of Government Affairs
of rStar Broadband Networks, Inc. and, before that, was an associate
at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Mr. Flynn began his legal career by serving
as a law clerk to Judge Edward R. Becker on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit and then to Justices Byron R. White and John
Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Flynn graduated from
Stanford University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science,
with distinction, and a Master’s degree in International Policy
Studies, and he holds his law degree, magna cum laude, from the
Georgetown University Law Center.
Timothy Leybold - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Leybold has been with the company since January 2010. He has more than 30 years of experience in financial leadership roles with public and private companies. From 2007 to 2008, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Coast Crane Company, a leading equipment distribution and rental company. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Port Townsend Paper Corp., a $350 million market leader in the corrugated paper industry. He has also held senior finance roles with The Port Blakely Company and RLC Industries, Inc. He was previously a CPA with a leading international public accounting firm.
Mr. Leybold holds a master’s in business administration from the University of Oregon and an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Portland.
David Bagley - Senior Vice
President, Corporate Development. Mr. Bagley has been with the Company
since July 2002 and has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications
industry. Mr. Bagley also serves as DBSD North America's Senior Vice
President, Corporate Development. From June 2000 to June 2001, he
was Vice President of Business Development for IPWireless, where
he was in charge of spectrum acquisition, strategic partnering and
regulatory affairs. Mr. Bagley spent four years at AirTouch and
Vodafone, which acquired AirTouch in 1999. He held various Corporate
Development positions working on transactions throughout the world.
His most recent position was head of Corporate Development for the
Americas for Vodafone. Prior to AirTouch, Mr. Bagley spent eight
years at SBC Communications in finance and Corporate Development
positions. Mr. Bagley holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and
Economics from Pacific University and a Master's degree in International
Management from Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management.
Robert S. Day Jr. - Senior
Vice President, Space Systems. Mr. Day has been with the Company
for over six years and has over 27 years of telecommunications industry
experience. Mr. Day serves as Senior Vice President, Space Systems
for both the Company and DBSD North America and is responsible for
the design, procurement, deployment, and operation of the DBSD North
America space segment. The space segment includes the DBSD North
America satellite, launch vehicle, gateway, satellite control center,
and satellite operations. His areas of expertise include satellite
design, integration, test, launch, operations, and system engineering.
Prior to joining the Company, he was the Vice President of Space
Technology for Teledesic LLC. Mr. Day also spent 19 years at Hughes
Space and Communications where he provided system engineering leadership
or served as program manager for several major geosynchronous satellite
programs. He led the integration, test, and launch team for the
first HS601 satellite, and served as the Deputy Business Unit Leader
for Spacecraft Design and Production at Hughes. Mr. Day holds a
Bachelor’s degree in General Engineering from the University of
Illinois, a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA,
and a certificate in Astronautical Engineering from UCLA.
Suzanne Hutchings Malloy
- Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs. Ms. Malloy has over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining the Company in 2000 and until 2002, Ms. Malloy served as Senior Regulatory Counsel for Teledesic LLC, where she directed the company’s licensing and regulatory efforts among various industry and regulatory constituencies, including the FCC, the U.S. State Department, and the International Telecommunication Union. At the Company and DBSD North America (serving in a similar capacity), in addition to general regulatory activities, her work has included securing regulatory approval for new hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks, obtaining domestic spectrum assignments, helping maintain spectrum assets, and advocating for the companies and their subsidiaries in major rulemaking and adjudicatory proceedings before the FCC. She has also served on numerous U.S. delegations to regional and international spectrum management treaty conferences. She has also worked as an Attorney-Advisor at the FCC, where she participated in country-to-country treaty negotiations, World Trade Organization multilateral negotiations, and rulemaking proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission as a satellite industry expert, focusing primarily on licensing direct-to-home satellite operators. Ms. Malloy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Davidson College and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
David Zufall - Senior Vice
President, Network Systems. Mr. Zufall has been Senior Vice President,
Network Systems since January 2, 2006. During the twelve years prior
to joining the Company, Mr. Zufall served in a number of technical
and operational capacities at Nextel Communications, Inc., including
Vice President, Infrastructure Technology Development and Vice President,
Network Architecture/Chief Architect. Nextel operated a nationwide
digital cellular network in the United States. Mr. Zufall had responsibility
for working with partners in Nextel’s strategy and marketing divisions
to establish Nextel’s long-term network and technology roadmap.
Mr. Zufall holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering
and an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business, both from Columbia
University.