WildBlue Communications announced the appointment of Ken Carroll to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. He previously served as president and CFO at Liberty Satellite & Technology and before that as CFO of PRIMESTAR, a satellite TV service purchased by DirecTV in 2000.
Separately, WildBlue named Jim Elliot 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. Elliot comes to WildBlue from Ball Aerospace's Commercial Space Operations business unit.
WildBlue named Thad Mazurczyk as Vice President of Engineering. Mazurczyk was previously Senior Vice President of Technology for High Speed Access Corp. and before that spent more than nine years as the Vice President of Engineering at PRIMESTAR.
WildBlue also hired Randy Thompson as Vice President of Space Systems, responsible for WildBlue's satellites, satellite launch services and satellite management systems. Thompson comes to WildBlue from Liberty Satellite, where he held the position of Vice President of Advanced Technology.
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- WildBlue is preparing to launch its two-way satellite broadband service in the continental United States in 2004.
