XM Satellite Radio, today announced the appointment of Nate Davis to the newly created position of President and Chief Operating Officer.
Nate Davis is a seasoned telecommunications executive, having served in senior management roles at XO Communications, Nextel and MCI. He was President and COO of XO Communications from late 1999 through early 2003. During his tenure, XO became a $1.38 billion integrated communications provider offering voice, data, internet access, and web hosting services to all segments of the business market.
At Nextel Communications, Davis was the Executive Vice President of all technical operations which included engineering, operations, procurement, and IT. Davis also served as CFO of MCI Telecommunications, President and COO of MCImetro, and in a host of roles at MCI and AT&T earlier in his career. He most recently served as Executive In Residence at the venture capital firm Columbia Capital. In addition to continuing as a member of XM's Board of Directors, Davis serves on the boards of Mutual of America Capital Management Corporation and Charter Communications.
Davis received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his Masters in Engineering Computer Science at the Moore School at Penn, and a Bachelors of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
Ryan, you're skimping on the information! :)
With all due respect to Mr. Davis, how does success in the telecommunications industry translate into success in an broadcast entertainment medium? I mean, it's not like selling telephone services is exactly the same thing as radio broadcast...
What kind of responsibilities over daily life at XM will he be overseeing, and what kind of impact can we expect?
Under his previous tenure at XO and Nextel, did Mr. Davis lead the respective companies towards profit, or did he spend the companies into the red?
Depending on the scope of the newly-created position on the board, I can easily see how this could be a disasterous move on their part...
Things just keeping looking better for XM....now alls they need to do is follow through and make these changes actually WORK.
If these changes(marketing, etc.) don't work then we will be seeing Hugh gone.
He must be a good golfer.
First new COO, next merger.
Like they say, bros before hoes!
I bet next time we hear police sirens durring a conference call, it will be followed by our COO panicing and running out of the room.
-WF
Westfall,
Have you always been a massive bigot, or is this something new? A-hole.
hahaha. hilarious.... and when he's in jail, I'm sure your dad will be his lucky bitch.
Schim:
why does a douche bag, with an awful website, have to wreck the funny going on?
He's an intellignet man. Let's give him a chance.
I'd like to see someone at XM come from the entertainment business sometime. I'd also like to see Panero on the streetcorner with a tin cup.
Panero is a fucker's fucker. Stock-dumper. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go.
I'm sorry, is your dad already sucking dick in jail? my appologies if I touched a nerve.
I think i can sum up everything. WHO CARES
If you didn't care then why did you comment?
Plowboy1...I've seen you before on XMFan..don't start your stuff here. You got kicked out of their after repeating yourself and pretty much spamming topics. Good thing you can't post news because it would be about the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
hopefully he is a fan of the boys and understands how important they are to XM.
Oh we just had to bring O&A into this didn't we! They're not the only thing on XM, there are hundreds of channels. They have one of the most popular channels on the platform, but it's not all about them. Get a grip, please.
Hopefully the forces of darkness (Oprah, Nate Davis) will save us.
-WF
I love you heebeegeebees.
Ahigee, bite me on line one please. Ployboy holding.
I left Fan due to the high number of children like yourself. Fuck Fan and you, all in one nifty package.
For all of the focus on whether or not Nate Davis has the technical background to "Rising the machine" of XM Radio, how can one not beleive that his communications background doesn't qualify. His past success in other companies as well as his personal morels in life can do nothing less than keeping XM Radio a GOOD company. I have personally had the oppurtunity to meet and work alongside Nate Davis and am confident in his abilities as a leader and true " Force for the people" when it comes to Satellite Radio.
Hello Mr. Davis I love to see a black successful business man, but I am tired of just seeing it I want to be it. I am 28 years old and I have when't to college, and I have a degree in Business Adm. I need some help in getting my success started. If it is not to much trouble, for me to ask you for help. Get back in contact with me at my email jr_businessassociates@yahoo.com
hi Mr Davis,
I just bought the olympus evolt 510 because I was interested in the live view mode. Like you said. composing shots with live view is a big helping when I used my compact digital but im noticing that the live view is blurry and i am not able to focus with it. Please email me if you can help. Thanks
Sebouh