Gary Parsons is the former chairman of the board for
Sirius XM Radio
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sat ...
. Parsons was also formerly on the board of
WorldSpace
1worldspace, known for most of its existence simply as WorldSpace, is a defunct satellite radio network that in its heyday provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern, southern and northern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia w ...
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Parsons was with
MCI Communications
MCI Communications Corp. (originally Microwave Communications, Inc.) was a telecommunications company headquartered in Washington, D.C. that was at one point the second-largest long-distance provider in the United States.
MCI was instrumen ...
Corporation, where he served in a variety of roles from 1990 to 1996. He served as chairman of the board of directors for
XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM, Sirius XM Holdings. It provided pay-for-service radio, analogous to subscription cable televisi ...
from May 1997. He served as CEO until the recruitment of
Hugh Panero. Parsons was chairman of the board of directors of Motient Corporation from March 1998 to May 2002. Parsons joined Motient in July 1996, and also served as its chief executive officer and president. He serves on the board of Sorrento Networks Corporation and is chairman and was previously chief executive officer of Mobile Satellite Ventures L.P. Parsons resigned from his position as chairman of the board for Sirius XM Radio in November 2009, and was succeeded by independent director Eddy Hartenstein. He has two sons, Gary "Mike" Michael Parsons Jr. and Kenneth James Parsons. He is currently the Executive Chairman of the Board at
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Parsons Resigns as Chairman of Sirius XM Radio
American corporate directors
Living people
XM Satellite Radio
Sirius XM
Clemson University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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