John Stenbit has been a director of Viasat since 2004, and is a consultant for various government and commercial clients. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Stenbit served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, or C3I, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense of Networks and Information Integration / Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, the C3I successor organization. From 1977 to 2001, Mr. Stenbit worked for TRW, Inc., retiring as Executive Vice President. Mr. Stenbit was a Fulbright Fellow and Aerospace Corporation Fellow at the Technische Hogeschool, Einhoven, Netherlands. He also has significant expertise and perspective as a member of the boards of directors of private and public companies in various industries. Mr. Stenbit previously served as a director of Loral Space & Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LORL), Cogent, Inc., SM&A Corporation and SI International, Inc., as the chair of the R&D Advisory Committees for the Federal Aviation Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Security Agency and of the Science Advisory Group of the U.S. Strategic Command. Mr. Stenbit provides our Board with significant technological, defense and national security expertise as a result of his distinguished career of corporate and government service focused on the communications, aerospace and satellite fields.