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	Audit	Nominating and Corporate Governance	Compensation
Robert H. Niehaus
Founder and Chairman of GCP Capital Partners and Greenhill Capital Partners Mr. Niehaus has been the Chairman of Greenhill Capital Partners since June 2000. Mr. Niehaus has been a member of Greenhill's Management Committee since its formation in January 2004. Mr. Niehaus joined Greenhill in January 2000 as a managing director to begin the formation of Greenhill Capital Partners. 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 Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund II, L.P., a $2.2 billion private equity investment fund, from 1992 to 1999, and was vice chairman and a director of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners III, L.P., a $1.8 billion private equity investment fund, from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Niehaus was also the chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley's merchant banking department from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Niehaus is a director of Heartland Systems Payments, Inc. and other private companies. Mr. Niehaus is a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar.
J. Darrel Barros
Director Mr. Barros is the President of Syndicated Communications, Inc., a private equity fund focused on media and communications. Prior to joining the SCI team, he was President of VGC, PC, a Washington, DC based law firm specializing in private equity and early−stage investments. Mr. Barros also served as a corporate and securities attorney in the venture capital practice group of DLA Piper US LLP. He is currently Executive Chairman of Haven Media Group, LLC, a music−media company, and Chairman of Prestige Resort Properties, Inc., a resort and hospitality company. Mr. Barros is also a director of TMX Interactive, Simplink Corporation and Maya Cinemas. Mr. Barros received a B.S. degree from Tufts University, a Master in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business in Dartmouth College, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan.
Scott L. Bok
Director Mr. Bok has served as Greenhill's Co−Chief Executive Officer since October 2007, served as its Co−President between 2004 and 2007 and has been a member of Greenhill's Management Committee since its formation in January 2004. In addition, Mr. Bok has been a director of Greenhill since its incorporation in March 2004. From January 2004 until October 2007, Mr. Bok was Greenhill's U.S. President. From 2001 until the formation of Greenhill's Management Committee, Mr. Bok participated on the two−person administrative committee responsible for managing Greenhill's operations. Mr. Bok has also served as a Senior Member of Greenhill Capital Partners since its formation. Mr. Bok joined Greenhill as a managing director in February 1997. Before joining Greenhill, Mr. Bok was a managing director in the mergers, acquisitions and restructuring department of Morgan Stanley & Co., where he worked from 1986 to 1997, based in New York and London. From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Bok practiced mergers and acquisitions and securities law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Mr. Bok is a member of the board of directors of various private companies. Mr. Bok is also a member of the Investment Committee of Greenhill Capital Partners. Mr. Bok is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He holds a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the law review.
Thomas C. Canfield
Director Mr. Canfield has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Spirit Airlines since October 2007. Previously, Mr. Canfield was General Counsel of Point Blank Solutions, Inc. and was Chief Executive Officer and Plan Administrator for AT&T Latin America Corp. Prior to assuming those roles, Mr. Canfield was General Counsel and Secretary of AT&T Latin America following its acquisition with FirstCom Corporation. Mr. Canfield became General Counsel of FirstCom in May 2000. Prior to joining FirstCom, Mr. Canfield was Counsel in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where for nine years he practiced in the areas of corporate, securities and international transactions. Mr. Canfield also is a member of the Boards of Directors of Tricom SA and Birch Telecom Inc.
Peter M. Dawkins
Director Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Peter M. Dawkins serves on Iridium's board of directors, and has been a senior partner at Flintlock Capital Asset Management LLC since July 2009. Previously, Dawkins was vice chairman of Global Wealth Management for Citigroup Inc.; vice chairman of the Citigroup Private Bank; executive vice president and vice chairman of The Travelers Companies, Inc.; chairman and chief executive officer of Primerica Financial Services, Inc.; and head of the U.S. consulting practice of Bain & Company Inc. Dawkins began his career in the private sector as head of the Public Financing Banking division of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. A 1959 graduate of West Point, Dawkins served in the U.S. Army for 24 years. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1981. Dawkins holds a Ph.D. and master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford University from 1959 through 1962.
Matthew J. Desch
Chief Executive Officer Matthew J. Desch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Iridium Communications, Inc., has more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications management and over 19 years in the global wireless industry. Mr. Desch joined Iridium in 2006, and guided the company through a financial transaction resulting in the company going public in 2009. Before joining Iridium, Mr. Desch served as the CEO of New Jersey-based Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a supplier of software and services to the telecommunications industry. Mr. Desch was instrumental in moving Telcordia into new wireless and international markets, and later in spinning off the company to private equity from SAIC, Inc. Prior to Telcordia, Mr. Desch was president of Nortel's fast-growing Wireless Networks division. Mr. Desch held senior management roles at Nortel from 1995 to 2000 and drove its growth from $2 billion to more than $4.5 billion in annual revenue. Mr. Desch has served on the board of directors of a number of high tech telecom companies, including Starnet Networks (now part of Cisco), Flarion Technologies (now part of Qualcomm) and Airspan Networks. He also has sat on the boards of industry association such as the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) and The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). He has served as chairman of The Wireless Foundation. Mr. Desch began his career in software development with Bell Laboratories, which became Lucent Technologies. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and an MBA from The University of Chicago.
Terry Jones
Director Mr. Jones is the Managing Member of the General Partner of Syndicated Communications Venture Partners V, L.P. and the Managing Member of Syncom Venture Management Co., LLC. Prior to joining Syncom in 1978, he was co-founding stockholder and Vice President of Kiambere Savings and Loan in Nairobi, and a Lecturer at the University of Nairobi. He also worked as a Senior Electrical Engineer for Westinghouse Aerospace and Litton Industries. He is a member of the board of directors for several other Syncom portfolio companies including Radio One, Inc. and TV One LLC. He formerly served on the Board of the Southern African Enterprise Development Fund, a presidential appointment, and is on the Board of Trustees of Spellman College. Mr. Jones received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Trinity College, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Alvin B. Krongard
Director Alvin B. Krongard serves as a member of the Iridium board of directors, and previously was a member of the board of directors of Iridium Holdings from 2006 to September 2009. Krongard previously held the positions of chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Alex. Brown Incorporated (Alex. Brown), an investment banking firm; vice chairman of the board of directors of Bankers Trust Company N.A.; and other financial industry posts. He served as counselor to the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and was a member of the board of directors of PHH Corporation. He currently serves on the board of directors of Under Armour, Inc., and as vice chairman of The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation. Krongard received a bachelor's degree with honors from Princeton University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.
Steven B. Pfeiffer
Director Mr. Pfeiffer has been a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP since 1983 and has served as the elected Chair of the firm's Executive Committee since 2003. He previously served as the Partner−In−Charge of the Washington, DC and London offices, and headed the firm's International Department. In addition to serving on the Board of Iridium Holdings, Mr. Pfeiffer is a Non−Executive Director of Barloworld Limited in South Africa, Chairman Emeritus of Wesleyan University, a trustee of The Africa−America Institute in New York, a Director of Project HOPE in Washington, D.C., and a Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Mr. Pfeiffer received a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, completing a B.A. and a M.A. in jurisprudence. He also holds a M.A. in Area Studies (Africa) from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and holds a Juris Doctorate from Yale University. Mr. Pfeiffer served as an officer on active and reserve duty in the United States Navy.
Parker W. Rush
Director Mr. Rush has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Republic Companies, Inc., a provider of property and casualty insurance, since December 2003. Prior to his employment with Republic, Mr. Rush served as a Senior Vice President and Managing Director at The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies in charge of the Southern U.S. based in Dallas, Texas and in various other capacities since February 1980.

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NASDAQ:IRDM $9.06 + 0.15	Sep 2, 2010 10:08 AM ET
NASDAQ:IRDMW $2.90 + 0.13	Sep 1, 2010 3:54 PM ET
NASDAQ:IRDMU $12.70	Aug 12, 2010 9:54 AM ET
NASDAQ:IRDMZ $2.00 + 0.10	Sep 1, 2010 3:09 PM ET

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