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Hamid Akhavan
Dish Network has named Hamid Akhavan as CEO and said he will continue as CEO of sister company EchoStar.
EchoStar and Dish have agreed to merge. The transaction is still being reviewed by the government, but the company expects it to close by year-end.
“Hamid brings a unique set of skills to Dish building off his experience in the technology, telecom, private equity and investment sectors,” Dish co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen said. “An engineer by background, he’s financially astute and a seasoned manager. He currently serves EchoStar, Dish’s sister company, as CEO and will lead both companies in order to hit the ground running once the merger with EchoStar is complete.”
Before joining Dish and EchoStar, Akhavan was a partner at Twin Point Capital, an investment firm, and a founding partner of Long Arc Capital LLC. He held a variety of executive positions including CEO of Unify Inc. (formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications), chief operating officer of Deutsche Telekom and CEO of T-Mobile International.