{"id":87730,"date":"2009-12-24T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-names-moore-president-of-wildblue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:57","slug":"viasat-names-moore-president-of-wildblue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-names-moore-president-of-wildblue\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Names Moore President of WildBlue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-24-09] <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> named Tom Moore president of its newly acquired <strong>WildBlue<\/strong> subsidiary, ViaSat announced Dec. 23.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; His duties at Wildblue will include oversight of the construction and launch of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Moore co-founded WildBlue in 1998 and served as president and CEO until 2005, continuing as a director of the company until 2008. He replaces former WildBlue CEO David Leonard.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe think Tom\u2019s vision for the next phase of growth at WildBlue, including the integration of ViaSat-1, is really going to create exciting prospects for this business,\u201d ViaSat COO and President Rick Baldridge said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-24-09] ViaSat named Tom Moore president of its newly acquired WildBlue subsidiary, ViaSat announced Dec. 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; His duties at Wildblue will include oversight of the construction and launch of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Moore co-founded WildBlue in 1998 and served as president and CEO until 2005, continuing as a director of the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730"}],"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=87730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87917,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87730\/revisions\/87917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}