EchoStar Corp. technology unit chief Mark Jackson didn’t receive a degree from Texas Tech University, the school’s registrar said, contrary to the satellite company’s website. EchoStar said it was a clerical error.
Markus W. Jackson attended Texas Tech from September 1979 to May 1982 and majored in engineering, though there was “no degree awarded,” according to a statement faxed to Bloomberg News from the university registrar.
EchoStar’s website said Jackson, president of EchoStar Technologies LLC, “earned his degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University,” without being more specific.
Jackson “has never claimed to graduate from Texas Tech,” said Marc Lumpkin, a spokesman for Douglas County-based EchoStar. “This is an error on our part.”
