Iridium Announces Executive Retirements; Names Vincent O'Neill as New Chief Financial Officer and Timothy Last as new Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, each effective January 1, 2025

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[{"type":"text","content":"MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) today announced that Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, 66, the Company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Administrative Officer and Bryan J. Hartin, 60, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, plan to retire at year-end. Mr. Fitzpatrick will continue to serve on the Company's Board of Directors after his retirement as CFO. The Company named Vincent O'Neill as its new Chief Financial Officer and Timothy Last as the new Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, each to be effective January 1, 2025.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nVincent O'Neill currently serves as Senior Vice President, Finance with responsibility for treasury, strategic and operational financial planning and execution. He joined Iridium in 2014 as its Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Iridium, O'Neill was CFO of Mobilitie, a wireless infrastructure company, and previously spent 10 years at Nextel Sprint in a variety of senior finance roles. Prior to Nextel Sprint, he worked for Celnet, a Mobile Wireless Operator in the UK (now Telefonica). O'Neill is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an Accounting and Finance Diploma from Technological University Shannon, Ireland.\nTim Last currently serves as Senior Vice President, Sales, Product Management and Customer Care with responsibility for the Company's product portfolio, global customer integration and support for commercial sales in the Americas region. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager, Americas. Last joined Iridium in 2012 and has held roles of increasing responsibility within the sales and marketing organization. Prior to working at Iridium, Last held business development roles at ORBCOMM, Inc. and BT Group. Last holds an MSc in Telecommunications Business from University College London, England.\nCommenting on these changes, Iridium CEO Matt Desch shared, \"I'm expecting a seamless leadership transition with the appointment of Vince and Tim to the executive team. It is a credit to both Tom Fitzpatrick and Bryan Hartin that they have developed leaders on their teams with the experience and vision to successfully succeed them. Both Vince and Tim have extensive experience working with Iridium's partners, employees and investors and will continue the success of ...

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