Comcast Promotes Lynn Charytan to Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Comcast Cable
November 03 2015 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
Comcast announced today that Lynn Charytan, Senior Vice
President of Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General
Counsel for Comcast Corporation, has been promoted to Executive
Vice President and General Counsel of Comcast Cable. In this role,
Ms. Charytan will be responsible for overseeing the legal affairs
of Comcast Cable and the wide array of technologies, products, and
services that it delivers to both consumers and businesses in 39
states and Washington, DC. She will also continue to oversee
regulatory compliance with the NBCUniversal transaction
requirements. Ms. Charytan will report to Neil Smit, Chief
Executive Officer of Comcast Cable, and has a dotted line reporting
relationship to David L. Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President of
Comcast Corporation, in connection with her continuing regulatory
oversight responsibilities.
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Comcast Promotes Lynn Charytan to
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Mr. Smit commented, “Lynn’s success in partnering with many of
our business teams, her broad and deep experience as inside
corporate counsel for Comcast, combined with her decades of work on
regulatory matters as outside counsel in the communications and
entertainment industries, makes her the ideal leader to assume this
role.”
Mr. Cohen said, “Lynn has done an outstanding job leading
our company’s legal regulatory affairs function as well as
assisting Comcast Cable on many business activities. She is highly
respected throughout our company and in the cable and
telecommunications industries, and it gives me great pride to see
her continue her rapid career growth at Comcast.”
Ms. Charytan joined Comcast in 2010 after spending 17 years at
WilmerHale in Washington, DC, where she served as the chair of its
Communications, Privacy and Internet Law Practice Group. During her
tenure at the firm, she counseled clients in all sectors of the
communications industry on law matters pertaining to
telecommunications, privacy, security, and the Internet. Prior to
joining WilmerHale in 1993, Ms. Charytan spent two years as
in-house counsel to The Washington Post. She also clerked for
Judge Stanley Sporkin on the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia.
Ms. Charytan has received many accolades for her exceptional
legal skills, having been ranked in the 2008, 2009, and 2010
editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,
included in the 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in
America in the area of communications law, and ranked for
several years running with the highest possible rating in
Martindale-Hubbel’s Top Rated Lawyers list. She has also been
widely recognized for her leadership and achievements in the cable
industry, having been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in
Cable” by CableFAX Magazine in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and a “Wonder
Woman” by Multichannel News in 2015.
Ms. Charytan earned a BA degree from Columbia University and a
Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and graduated from
both institutions with honors. She will be based at Comcast’s
global headquarters in Philadelphia and will also work at the
company’s office in Washington, DC.
About Comcast Corporation:
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and
technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and
NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video,
high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential customers
under the XFINITY brand and also provides these services to
businesses. NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports
cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks,
television production operations, television station groups,
Universal Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit
www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.
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