Mark D Dankberg has sold VSAT and made no open-market buys since Aug 2016

Mark D. Dankberg is a co‑founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer of Viasat, Inc., a global satellite communications company he helped establish in 1986.( Under his leadership, Viasat has grown into one of the United States’ fastest‑growing technology companies, earning repeated recognition from major business and industry publications for its innovation and industry leadership in broadband, aerospace, defense, and satellite systems.( As a corporate insider, he has long been a key executive and major shareholder at Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT).(

Before founding Viasat, Dankberg worked as an Assistant Vice President at M/A‑COM Linkabit, a satellite telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and as a communications engineer at Rockwell International.( He is widely regarded as an industry expert in satellite and aerospace systems, has served on national and international advisory bodies including the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and is a commissioner with the UN ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.( Dankberg holds B.S.E.E. and M.E.E. (or M.S. EE) degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and is a member of the Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame.(

Written by Perplexity from public sources.