Satellite broadcaster and spectrum investor Dish Network has announced that its president and chief executive officer, Joseph Clayton, is to retire at the end of March.
Dish co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen will take over Clayton’s roles.
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Satellite broadcaster and spectrum investor Dish Network has announced that its president and chief executive officer, Joseph Clayton, is to retire at the end of March.
Dish co-founder and chairman Charlie Ergen will take over Clayton’s roles.
A 42-year veteran of the consumer electronics industry, Clayton has held the positions since June 2011. He was Dish’s first CEO other than Ergen and was brought in to enable Ergen to focus on managing the raft of acquisitions, including Terrestar and DBSD North America (formerly ICO North America), that Dish had just made.
Indeed, Clayton’s time in the job coincided with the shift in Dish’s strategy as it sought to acquire a large swathe of wireless spectrum in the US. Following the company’s participation in the recent AWS-3 auction, Dish now holds around 12% of useable wireless spectrum in the country.
Commenting on the departure, Ergen said: “Over the last four years, Joe’s leadership has been instrumental to Dish as we have worked to engineer a fundamental transformation of our business.
“He has set the stage for what will become a new company, and with that he has prepared a new class of management to address the adventures coming our way.”
Prior to joining Dish, Clayton was the CEO and then chairman of satellite radio provider Sirius Satellite Radio between 2001 and 2008. Before Sirius, Clayton had served as president of Global Crossing North America, president and CEO of Frontier Corporation, and EVP of marketing and sales for the Americas and Asia of Thomson S.A.
