{"id":85992,"date":"2010-10-19T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dean-olmstead-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:37:04","slug":"dean-olmstead-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dean-olmstead-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Olmstead Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-19-10] Former <strong>EchoStar<\/strong> President Dean Olmstead passed away after a long battle with cancer, the company announced Oct. 18.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Olmstead joined EchoStar in 2008 after serving as an adviser to<strong> Loral Space &amp; Communications<\/strong>. He also served as president of <strong>Arrowhead Global Solutions<\/strong>, president and CEO of <strong>SES Americom <\/strong>and held leadership positions with <strong>DirecTV Japan, NASA<\/strong> and the<strong> U.S. State Department<\/strong>. He was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1997 and was an individual patron of the Arthur C. Clarke foundation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cDean will be remembered as a true legend in the satellite industry and will remain an eternal inspiration for our employees. Dean was a visionary who helped reshape the entire industry. His accomplishments at EchoStar and through his esteemed career have created the base upon which others will build for years to come,\u201d EchoStar CEO and President Mike Dugan said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-19-10] Former EchoStar President Dean Olmstead passed away after a long battle with cancer, the company announced Oct. 18. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Olmstead joined EchoStar in 2008 after serving as an adviser to Loral Space &amp; Communications. He also served as president of Arrowhead Global Solutions, president and CEO of SES Americom and held leadership positions with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}