Comcast Announces 21 Executive Promotions

Both Comcast Cable and Comcast Corp. announced executive promotions across a number of departments Monday (March 30).

A total of 21 executives received new job titles. Comcast Cable's promotions were at the senior vice president and executive vice president levels in its customer experience, consumer services group, technology and product, enterprise and platform services, government affairs, sales and marketing, and legal departments. Comcast Corp.'s, meanwhile, were at the vice president level in its administration, federal government affairs, legal and strategic intellectual property departments and its assurance and advisory team.

The No. 1 U.S. MSO elevated 13 executives.

Charlie Herrin has been named EVP of customer experience. He most recently led the design team behind the X1 Platform.

Within the consumer services group, Matthew Strauss has been promoted to EVP and general manager, Video Services; and Daniel Herscovici has risen to SVP and GM, Xfinity Home. Strauss previously led Comcast's multiplatform video strategy and oversaw growth in transactional and online video revenue. Herscovici

In Comcast Cable's technology and product, Jan Hofmeyr has been promoted to SVP, X1 Platform; Bridget Kimball has been named SVP, software development & engineering; and Rick Rioboli has become SVP, Comcast Metadata Products and Search Services (CoMPASS). The engineering and platform services group elevated Sherita T. Ceasar to SVP, national video deployment engineering.

In the government affairs department, Klayton Fennell and Rick Smotkin were each elevated to SVP, while Michael Brady was promoted to SVP, state regulatory affairs.

Clem Cheng has been promoted to SVP of human resources for the sales and marketing group; and Kathryn Koles and David Marcus have each been named SVP and deputy general counsel within the legal department.

On the corporate side, Comcast promoted eight people to vice president.

Deborah Buhles was promoted to VP, administration, reporting to administration SVP Karen Buchholz.

Catherine Gray and Anthony DeShan were each elevated to VP on the Comcast assurance and advisory team, reporting to Cynthia Hook, SVP, general auditor and global risk officer.

Juan Otero has risen to VP, federal government affairs, reporting to Melissa Maxfield, SVP.

In the corporate legal department, Matthew Fradin and Derek Squire have each been promoted to VP and senior deputy general counsel, reporting to Marc Rockford, who holds the same position. Brian Rankin has become a VP and senior deputy general counsel reporting to Lynn Charytan, SVP of legal regulatory affairs and senior deputy general counsel.

Mark Dellinger was promoted to VP, strategic intellectual property, reporting to James Finnegan, SVP of the group.

Source: http://www.multichannel.com/news/cable-operators/comcast-announces-21-executive-promotions/389286