DENVER (AP) — Dean Olmstead, president of EchoStar Satellite Services, died Oct. 16 after battling cancer. He was 55.
EchoStar Corp. announced his death Friday.
Olmstead joined Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar in 2008, after it was spun off from Dish Network Corp. He headed its satellite services subsidiary.
He had also worked for SES Global, Arrowhead Global Solutions, DirecTV and Hughes Electronics. Olmstead was instrumental in several mergers and consolidations.
Before moving to the private sector, he worked in Washington as deputy director of the State Department’s Satellite and Cable Policy Branch and at NASA, where he was chief of the Advanced Communications Branch and program manager for the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite.
