Charles Ergen
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Charles Ergen

United States 73 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Satellite TV
Residence
Denver, Colorado
Education
University of Tennessee Knoxville (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Wake Forest University School of Business (Master of Business Administration)
Marital Status
Married
Children
5

Assets

  • CONX Corp.
    16,875,000 shares @ -
    -
    CNXX-US
  • CONX Corp.
    10,000 shares @ -
    -
    CNXX-US
  • Echostar Communications Corp
    145,309,325 shares @ -
    -
    SATS-US
  • Echostar Communications Corp
    60,000 shares @ -
    -
    SATS-US
  • Echostar Communications Corp
    100,000 shares @ -
    -
    SATS-US

Biography

Charlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite and internet service company EchoStar.

Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980.

In 1995, EchoStar went public and also launched its first satellite, birthing pay TV subsidiary Dish Network.

Ergen spun off Dish into a separate company in 2008 and remerged the businesses in December 2023, again under the EchoStar name.

Today, the company has more than 7 million pay TV subscribers.

About

Ergen is the son of an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp.