Englewood, Co., USA - February 24, 2015, Englewood, Co., USA - DISH Network Corporation announced that president and CEO Joseph P. Clayton will retire from March 31, 2015.
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Prior to his appointment at DISH, Mr. Clayton served as chairman of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., from November 2004 through July 2008 and served as chief executive officer of Sirius from November 2001 through November 2004.
Before joining Sirius, Mr. Clayton served as president of Global Crossing North America, as president and chief executive officer of Frontier Corporation and as executive vice president of Marketing and Sales for the Americas and Asia of Thomson S.A.
Mr. Clayton has received numerous accolades throughout his career including Bellarmine University Alumni of the Year in 1996, and induction into both the Indiana University School of Business and Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame in 2008.
Mr. Clayton was a four-year member of the EchoStar Corporation Board of Directors and a former Chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association. Currently, Clayton is a Trustee for Bellarmine University in Kentucky where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration.
Mr. Clayton earned his Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Management from Indiana University where he sits on the Dean's Advisory Board for the Indiana School of Business.
DISH Co-founder and Chairman Charles W. Ergen, who has previously served as DISH's President and CEO, will succeed Mr. Clayton in those roles.
Mr. Ergen co-founded DISH more than 30 years ago and currently acts as Chairman of both DISH and EchoStar. In June 2011, he stepped down from his role as President and CEO of DISH to focus on long-term business development and acquisition tactics in an effort to reach new markets, expand product and service offerings and bolster the company's customer base.
Mr. Ergen has received numerous accolades for his renowned career as a brilliant entrepreneur. Most recently, 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, Mr. Ergen was honored as Frost & Sullivan's "CEO of the Year in the Satellite Industry" award, 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. ■