---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-036070"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SATS"
cik: "0001415404"
company_name: "EchoStar CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T17:54:32.452393+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EchoStar appoints Veronika Takacs as Controller and principal accounting officer effective March 20, 2023

## Summary
- Takacs, former Global Controller at The Washington Post, replaces Jeffrey S. Boggs as principal accounting officer.
- Annual salary of $300,000, target cash bonus of $75,000, and options for 5,000 shares vesting over 5 years.
- No family relationships or transactions requiring disclosure under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-036070
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SATS
- cik: 0001415404
- company_name: EchoStar CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1415404/000110465923036070/0001104659-23-036070-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1415404/000110465923036070/tm2310319d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-036070
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-036070.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-036070.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Veronika Takacs was appointed as Controller at EchoStar CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Controller
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1415404/000110465923036070/0001104659-23-036070-index.htm
- Executive change
  Jeffrey S. Boggs departed as principal accounting officer at EchoStar CORP.
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: 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.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1415404/000110465923036070/0001104659-23-036070-index.htm

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