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Matthew J. Desch has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a director of our company since 2009 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of our predecessor, Iridium Holdings LLC, from 2006 to 2009. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Desch served as Chief Executive Officer of Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications software services provider that is now part of Ericsson. Previously, he spent 13 years at Nortel Networks Corporation, including as President of its global wireless networks business. Mr. Desch serves on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a director and chair of the compensation and human resources committee of Unisys Corporation, and as a director and member of the corporate governance and nominating and cybersecurity committees of VeriSign, Inc. Mr. Desch received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.

Suzanne E. McBride has served as our Chief Operations Officer since February 2019 and as a director of our company since May 2020. Ms. McBride served as Chief Operating Officer of OneWeb, Ltd., a privately held company building a space-based global communications network, from October 2018 to January 2019 and as its Senior Vice President from 2016 to October 2018. OneWeb filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2020. Previously, she was employed by Iridium Satellite LLC, our primary operating subsidiary, in a series of positions with increasing responsibility from 2007 until 2016, most recently serving as Vice President, Program Management Office and Launch Services, a role in which she oversaw the launch program for our second-generation constellation. Ms. McBride has more than 30 years of experience in the satellite industry, including as a senior engineer at Motorola's Satellite Communications Group during the building and launching of the original Iridium satellite constellation in the 1990s as well as deploying 2G and 3G networks. Since February 2022, she has served as a director of the publicly held company Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Ms. McBride previously served on the board of directors of Descartes Labs and Finite Carbon. Ms. McBride received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee in the Executive Aerospace and Defense program, and her dual undergraduate degrees are from Columbia University in Industrial Engineering and Claremont McKenna College in Management Engineering.

Kathleen A. Morgan has served as our Chief Legal Officer since January 2022 and served as Vice President, Corporate Law, of Iridium Satellite LLC from 2008 until her assumption of the Chief Legal Officer role. Ms. Morgan previously served as Assistant General Counsel and then Plan Administrator at Teleglobe USA Inc. and as Assistant Corporate Counsel at MCI Corporation. Ms. Morgan began her legal career at Dickstein Shapiro LLP practicing corporate and securities law. Ms. Morgan holds a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with honors, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scott T. Scheimreif has served as our Executive Vice President, Government Programs since 2012 and previously served as our Vice President, Government Programs from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Scheimreif received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Salisbury University.

Vincent J. O'Neill has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2025. Since joining Iridium in 2014, he has held roles of increasing responsibility within the finance organization. Mr. O'Neill served as Senior Vice President, Finance prior to assuming his current role, leading our annual budgeting, long-range financial planning, strategic transactions, and financing transactions functions. Before joining our company, he held various financial leadership roles with wireless and wireless infrastructure providers, including BT Cellnet (now Telfonica), Mobilitie and Sprint Nextel (now part of T-Mobile). Mr. O'Neill is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an accounting and finance diploma from the Technological University of the Shannon in Ireland.

Robert H. Niehaus has served as a director of our company since 2008 and as Chairman of our Board of Directors since 2009. Mr. Niehaus also served as our Chief Executive Officer for a brief period in 2009. Mr. Niehaus is the founder and Co-Managing Partner of GCP Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm formed in 2009 as the successor to Greenhill Capital Partners, the merchant banking business of Greenhill & Co., Inc. Mr. Niehaus joined Greenhill & Co. in 2000 to begin the formation of Greenhill Capital Partners and served as its Chairman and Chair of its Investment Committee from 2000 to 2009. Prior to joining Greenhill, Mr. Niehaus spent 17 years at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he was a Managing Director in the merchant banking department from 1990 to 1999. Mr. Niehaus was Vice Chairman and a director of the private equity investment funds Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund II, L.P. and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners III, L.P. Mr. Niehaus was also the Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley's merchant banking department from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Niehaus currently serves as a director of Zeta Global Holdings Corp. and several private portfolio companies of GCP Capital Partners. Mr. Niehaus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar.

Thomas C. Canfield has served as a director of our company since 2008. Since July 2025, Mr. Canfield has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., parent company of Spirit Airlines, LLC, an American low-cost airline, and previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Spirit Airlines from October 2007 to July 2025. In November 2024, Spirit and certain of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections, and recently announced it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 in early summer 2026. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Canfield served as General Counsel and Secretary of Point Blank Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of antiballistic body armor. Prior to Point Blank, from 2004 to 2007, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Plan Administrator of AT&T Latin America Corp., a public company formerly known as FirstCom Corporation, which developed high-speed fiber networks in Latin American cities. Mr. Canfield also served as General Counsel and Secretary at AT&T Latin America Corp. from 1999 to 2004. Previously, Mr. Canfield was Counsel in the New York office of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

Admiral Eric T. Olson (Ret.) has served as a director of our company since 2011. Admiral Olson retired from the United States Navy in 2011 as a four-star Admiral after 38 years of military service. Admiral Olson's career culminated as the head of the United States Special Operations Command from 2007 to 2011, where he was responsible for the mission readiness of all Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations forces. In this position, he led more than 65,000 people and managed an annual budget in excess of $10 billion. As President and Managing Member of ETO Group, LLC since September 2011, Admiral Olson also acts as an independent national security consultant supporting a wide range of private and public sector organizations. From June 2019 to May 2020, Admiral Olson served as CEO of Hans Premium Water, a privately held company. He serves on the board of directors of Under Armour, Inc. and is the chair of its corporate governance and sustainability committee, and he also serves on the board of directors of Palladyne AI Corp. and is the chair of its compensation committee and a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee. He also serves as a director for six privately held companies. Admiral Olson graduated from the United States Naval Academy and earned a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. For seven years, he was an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

L. Anthony Frazier has served as a director of our company since March 2021. Mr. Frazier has served as Chief Executive Officer and director of LeoLabs, Inc., a commercial provider of Space Situational Awareness and Space Domain Awareness services, since March 2024. Mr. Frazier served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector Earth Intelligence for Maxar Technologies Inc., a space technology company, until October 2023, following Maxar's acquisition by a private equity firm. He previously served as Maxar's Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations and President of Radiant Solutions, Maxar's Geospatial Services business. Mr. Frazier joined Maxar in 2017 following that company's acquisition of DigitalGlobe. Mr. Frazier served as Senior Vice President, General Manager of DigitalGlobe's Services business from 2013 to 2017 and prior to DigitalGlobe's acquisition of GeoEye, Inc. in 2013, had served as GeoEye's Senior Vice President of Marketing since 2010. He previously served as Senior Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems and also held senior marketing roles at Infor, iPhrase Technologies and pcOrder.com. Mr. Frazier began his career in strategic consulting at Bain & Company. Mr. Frazier received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration degree, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.

Jacqueline E. Yeaney has served as a director of our company since May 2023. In October 2024, Ms. Yeaney founded Brave Bets LLC, an executive coaching and advising business. From April 2023 to May 2025 Ms. Yeaney led the CMO Collaborative, a member organization for marketing professionals that she co-founded. From September 2022 to June 2023, Ms. Yeaney served as a strategic advisor for vorteXplore Ltd, a company providing behavioral science employee listening tools. She served as Chief Marketing Officer of Tableau Software, a Salesforce company that specializes in data visualization, from August 2019 to September 2022, including involvement in the acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce in 2019. Previously, she was Chief Marketing Officer of Ellucian, a privately held software and services company, from 2017 to April 2019. Prior to joining Ellucian, she was Executive Vice President, Strategy and Marketing at Red Hat, Inc., a publicly traded provider of open-source software solutions, from 2011 to 2016. Ms. Yeaney started her career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and then spent several years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. In 2002, she joined Delta Air Lines Inc. as Managing Director of Consumer Marketing. From 2004 to 2007, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation (HBMC), a retail residential mortgage lender. In 2007, she joined EarthLink, Inc., a publicly traded internet service provider, as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. From 2008 to 2010, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Premiere Global Services, Inc., a publicly traded provider of web conferencing, online meetings, and webcasting. In September 2023, Ms. Yeaney joined, and in December 2024 became the vice chair of, the board of Plan International USA, a development and humanitarian organization that works in over 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children's rights and equality for girls. Ms. Yeaney has served on the board of Talkspace, Inc., a publicly traded virtual therapy company, since 2021, where she serves on the audit committee and is chair of the nomination and governance committee. Ms. Yeaney also served as a member of the board of directors of Avaya Holdings Corp., a publicly traded technology and cloud-based communications company, from 2019 until May 2023. She previously served on the board of directors for Promethean World PLC, a publicly traded global education technology company, prior to its acquisition in 2015. Ms. Yeaney holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kay N. Sears has served as a director of our company since May 2022. Since November 2022, she has served as Vice President and General Manager of Space, Intelligence & Weapon Systems for The Boeing Company, a major aerospace firm, having previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Autonomous Systems for Boeing's Defense, Space & Security unit from February 2022 to November 2022. In this role, she oversees development of cutting-edge autonomous technologies, intelligence capabilities and networking solutions for government and commercial customers. Prior to joining Boeing, she was the Vice President and General Manager of the Military Space line of business within Lockheed Martin Space, a division of Lockheed Martin Corporation, a global aerospace and defense technology company, from 2018 to February 2022, a role in which she was responsible for critical national security space programs and mission areas, including global navigation satellite systems, space-based missile warning, protected communications, space protection and operations, logistics and sustainment. She joined Lockheed Martin Space in 2016, serving as its Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Ms. Sears served as President of Intelsat General Corporation from 2006 to 2016. Before that, she served as Senior Vice President at PanAmSat Corporation and as Vice President at Verestar. For over a decade, she served on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides information, technical expertise, advice and guidance to the U.S. government on issues that may affect national security telecommunications capabilities. Ms. Sears received a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Richmond and a Master of Business Administration degree in information systems from The George Washington University.

Thomas J. Fitzpatrick served as our Chief Financial Officer from 2010 and as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer from 2013 until his retirement in December 2024. He has served on our Board since 2013. From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Fitzpatrick was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Centennial Communications Corp., a publicly traded telecommunications company that was acquired by AT&T in 2009. Previously, Mr. Fitzpatrick served as Chief Financial Officer of several privately held and publicly traded companies in the telecommunications and technology industries and was a Vice President with Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon). Mr. Fitzpatrick graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Villanova University. Mr. Fitzpatrick is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Monique S. Shivanandan has served as a director of our company since June 2025. Ms. Shivanandan previously served as the Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer at HSBC Holdings plc, a multinational financial services company from May 2023 to December 2025, and prior to that, as Chief Information Security Officer at HSBC from July 2020 to May 2023. She served as a group Chief Information Officer at the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies from 2017 to 2020. Earlier career experiences include serving as Chief Information Officer at insurance company Aviva plc and Chief Technology Officer at financial services company Capital One Financial Corporation. She has also held roles at telecommunication companies BellSouth and BT Group plc, a UK multinational telecommunications company. Ms. Shivanandan is chairwoman of the board of directors of Sepio, a cybersecurity asset risk management company. She previously served on the board of directors of Network International, a digital commerce solutions provider, from 2021 to 2024, serving on the audit, risk and tech and compensation committees, and on the board of managers of J.P. Morgan Securities from 2014 to 2018, serving on the audit, risk and nominations committees. Ms. Shivanandan graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering.

Louis M. Alterman has served as a director of our company since December 2025. Mr. Alterman has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Stratix Corporation, a managed mobility services provider, since 2019. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Rackspace (now Rackspace Technology), a global cloud technology services company. Prior to Rackspace, Mr. Alterman held numerous roles of increasing responsibility at EarthLink, a telecommunications provider, from 2003 to 2017, including as Chief Financial Officer from 2015 to 2017. Earlier in his career, from 1999 to 2003, he worked at BellSouth (now part of AT&T). Mr. Alterman currently serves on the board of directors of Diversified, a global technology solutions provider. He previously served on the board of directors of CareerBuilder from 2018 to 2022. Mr. Alterman received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Georgia, a Master of Business Administration from Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and subsequently completed executive education at Harvard University.

Timothy J. Last has served as our Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing since January 2025. Since joining Iridium in 2012, he has held roles of increasing responsibility within the sales and marketing organization. Mr. Last served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of our Americas region prior to assuming his current role, overseeing teams that handle sales, business and product development, and customer support for verticals including aviation, maritime, heavy equipment, transportation, asset tracking, utilities, and personal satellite messaging. Before joining our company, Mr. Last served in business development roles with the telecommunication companies Orbcomm and BT Global Services. He holds a Master of Science degree in telecommunications business from University College London.

On September 1, 2017, Timothy Kapalka, 42, was named Vice President and Corporate Controller of Iridium Satellite LLC and will serve as the Registrant's principal accounting officer. Prior to joining Iridium, from September 2013 to August 2017, Mr. Kapalka served as Controller of K12 Inc., a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curriculum to state and local governments. Prior to K12, from March 2013 to September 2013, Mr. Kapalka served as Vice President of Finance of GridPoint, Inc., a software and hardware solutions company focused in the energy sector. Prior to GridPoint, Inc., Mr. Kapalka served as a consultant to Fortress International Group, Inc., a service provider to mission critical facility owners and operators, from April 2012 to March 2013, where he had also previously served as Vice President of Finance and Accounting and Compliance Officer from 2008 to 2012.