Iridium Names Manjula Sriram as New Chief Information Officer

McLean, Va., January 5, 2022 – Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) today announced that Manjula Sriram has joined the company as Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO). Reporting to Chief Financial Officer Tom Fitzpatrick, Sriram is now responsible for leading Iridium’s Information Technology (IT) organization in implementing information systems to support both distributed and centralized business operations.

Sriram joins Iridium with more than twelve years of senior IT management experience.  Previously and for the past four years, Sriram was Vice President in the role of CIO for The Joint Chiropractic where she was responsible for the commercial and enterprise IT infrastructure for the company’s corporate and clinical operations, servicing approximately 700 standalone chiropractic offices. Prior to this, Sriram spent four years as the Director of Customer Implementation & Support for Early Warning Service, a financial systems company, to provide risk management solutions over a diverse network of 2,300 financial institutions, government entities and payment companies.

As Vice President & CIO, Sriram will drive the strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of Iridium’s technology roadmap and to provide the vision and leadership necessary to drive the Company’s IT infrastructure into the future. This includes overseeing the implementation, maintenance and compliance of the entire enterprise-wide technology, security, and billing systems. 

Sriram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University and is currently working on a second master’s degree from Arizona State University in Cybersecurity Policy.