People: WorldSpace, Inc. (WRSPQ.PK)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Samara, Noah 52 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Ganesan, Sridhar 45 2004 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Brown, Alexander 45 2006 Co - Chief Operating Officer
Frickel, Donald 65 1999 Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Kebede, Kassahun 51 2005 Director
Laramie, James 58 1990 Director
Schneider, William 67 2005 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Samara, Noah Noah A. Samara has served as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of WorldSpace and its predecessors since inception. Mr. Samara has been involved in the development of both geostationary and low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems since the mid-1980s. Mr. Samara’s early career was in satellite telecommunications, first with Geostar Corporation and later with the Washington law firm of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti.
Ganesan, Sridhar Sridhar Ganesan has served as Executive Vice President—Chief Financial Officer of WorldSpace and predecessors since October 2004. Mr. Ganesan joined the WorldSpace group in September 2001 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development. Prior to joining the WorldSpace group, Mr. Ganesan was the founder and Chief Executive officer of a US-based applications services provider, Skymach Corporation, from 2000 to 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Ganesan worked at Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunication in business development positions. Mr. Ganesan has more than twenty years of experience in business development, implementation of international businesses and projects and marketing and sales in the satellite, telecommunication, Internet, information technology and media areas.
Brown, Alexander Alexander P. Brown has served as Co-Chief Operating Officer of WorldSpace since May 2006. Mr. Brown has held international leadership roles with a variety of major content companies in the media industry. Prior to joining WorldSpace, he had been President and CEO of CNBC Asia Pacific, a cable television network specializing in business news, since May 2002. From January through November 2001, Mr. Brown was President and CEO of Virtual Spectator, Inc., a developer of on-line software for sports applications. From 1996 until 2000 Mr. Brown was managing director of ESPN Star Sports, a joint venture between ESPN, a sports and entertainment network, and Star TV. From February 1992 until 1996, Mr. Brown was Managing Director of ESPN Asia, where he launched and established ESPN’s Asian operations.
Frickel, Donald Donald J. Frickel has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of WorldSpace and its predecessors since January 1999. Mr. Frickel joined the WorldSpace group in March 1996 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development. Prior to joining the WorldSpace group, Mr. Frickel served as Associate General Counsel for Mobil Oil Corporation.
Kebede, Kassahun Mr. Kebede was elected as a director of WorldSpace on May 18, 2005. Mr. Kebede is the founder and managing partner of PANTON Capital Group, a New York based credit arbitrage hedge fund established in February 2004. From 1995 to 2004, Mr. Kebede worked at Deutsche Bank in a number of positions, ending as the head of a bank-wide management task force concerned with measuring, assessing and reducing the bank’s exposures (trading and loans) in Latin America. Previously, Mr. Kebede worked in the Global Markets Division focusing on the bank’s exposure in Asia and Latin America. Mr. Kebede also served as the head of equity derivatives and a member of the division’s Management and Commitment Committees. He originally joined Deutsche Bank in 1995 as head of European fixed income derivatives. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Kebede was head of the credit derivatives department at Merrill Lynch. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Kebede was employed at Bankers Trust. Mr. Kebede earned a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Marquette University in 1985.
Laramie, James James R. Laramie has served as a director of WorldSpace and predecessors since 1990. Mr. Laramie also served as the General Counsel of WorldSpace’s predecessors from November 1995 to 1998. Mr. Laramie is the President of Laramie & Associates, a management consulting company. From February 2002 to April 2004, Mr. Laramie served as the Chairman of Freeport Technologies, Inc., a company that provides collaborative conferencing systems for business development and management.
Schneider, William Dr. Schneider, Jr. has been a director of the Company since January 2005. He is a Washington, D.C. based economist and defense analyst, is President of International Planning Services, Inc., an international trade and finance advisory firm, and an Adjunct Fellow of the Hudson Institute. From 1981 to 1982, he served as the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget and from 1982 to 1986, as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. Subsequent to his government service, Dr. Schneider served, from 1987 to 1993, as an advisor to the U.S. government in several capacities, including Chairman of the President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, and is currently Chairman of the Defense Science Board of the Department of Defense as well as a member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group of the Department of State. He is the author of several works on defense policy, including Why IBM? Policy Issues in the Missile Defense Controversy (1969), and Arms, Men, and Military Budgets, an annual review of defense budget issues, and has also published numerous articles and monographs.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Samara, Noah 872,506
Ganesan, Sridhar 553,609
Brown, Alexander 1,183,280
Frickel, Donald 438,553
Kebede, Kassahun --
Laramie, James --
Schneider, William --
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Options Compensation

Name Options Value
Samara, Noah 7,659,375 111,138,000
Ganesan, Sridhar 0 0
Brown, Alexander 0 0
Frickel, Donald 914,063 13,263,100
Kebede, Kassahun 0 0
Laramie, James 0 0
Schneider, William 0 0

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