ECHOSTAR

Board of Directors

Jeffrey R. Tarr

Director
Mr. Tarr serves as a member of our board of directors and on our Nominating Committee, Strategy Committee and Audit Committee where he serves as our “audit committee financial expert”. Mr. Tarr is an independent consultant who provides strategic advice to private equity investors and chief executives. Mr. Tarr was President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DigitalGlobe, Inc., a provider of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis, from April 2011 until the acquisition of the company by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. in October 2017 to form Maxar Technologies Inc. After leaving Maxar Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Maxar”), Mr. Tarr was a consultant and advisor to Maxar from October 2017 until May 2019. From August 2018 until May 2019, Mr. Tarr served as a Senior Advisor to TPG, a global private equity firm. He also served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Solera Global Holding Corp and its subsidiary Solera Holdings, Inc., a leader in data and software for the automotive and insurance industries, from June 2019 until November 2019. Prior to DigitalGlobe, Inc., from 2004 to 2010, Mr. Tarr was an executive with IHS Inc. (currently IHS Markit), a provider of information and insight in energy, economics, geopolitical risk, environmental sustainability and supply chain management, as President and Chief Operating Officer (2008 to 2010), co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer (2007 to 2008) and division president (2004 to 2007). Prior to IHS Inc., Mr. Tarr served from 2001 to 2003 as CEO and a director of Hoover’s Inc., a publisher of business information, and from 2002 to 2003 as chairman. In 2003, Mr. Tarr oversaw the sale of Hoover’s Inc. to The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation and remained as president of the Hoover’s subsidiary through 2004. Mr. Tarr served on the Board of Directors of CEB, Inc., a provider of research and analysis focused on strategy, operations and general management issues from 2010 until Gartner, Inc.’s acquisition of the company in 2017. He currently serves as Chairman of the management board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and as a member of the Advisory Board for Voyager Space Holdings, a holding company acquiring and operating companies in the space exploration industry.
Independent Director