SATS EchoStar Corporation

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Effective March 20, 2023, Veronika Takacs has been appointed to serve as the Company’s Controller and replaces Jeffrey S. Boggs, Senior Vice President of Global Finance of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (“HNS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as principal accounting officer of the Company as of such date. Ms. Takacs, age 40, served as Global Controller and Director – Financial Accounting and Reporting of The Washington Post Company from June 2020 until March 2023. Prior thereto, she served in various accounting positions at comScore, Inc. beginning in July 2017, including serving as Senior Director, Technical Accounting and External Reporting from August 2018 until June 2020. From July 2007 until July 2017, Ms. Takacs served as Senior Manager, Assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

Ms. Takacs will receive an annual salary of $300,000 and a 2023 target cash bonus opportunity of $75,000 and will be granted options to acquire 5,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock at an exercise price to be set on the first trading day of the calendar quarter following her start date. The options will vest in five equal annual installments. Ms. Takacs has no family relationships with any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. There are no transactions and no proposed transactions between Ms. Takacs and the Company that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.