Comcast names Mike Cavanagh as co-CEO alongside Brian Roberts

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(L-R) Michael Cavanagh, then-chief fiscal serviceman of Comcast, talks with Brian Roberts, main enforcement serviceman of Comcast, arsenic they get for the yearly Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 successful Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Comcast announced Monday it's named Mike Cavanagh arsenic co-CEO alongside longtime person Brian Roberts, starting successful January.

Cavanagh, who presently serves arsenic president, volition besides beryllium named to the Comcast committee of directors astatine that time, effectual successful January. Roberts volition stay arsenic president and co-CEO of the company.

"Since joining Comcast a decennary ago, Mike has proven himself to beryllium a trusted and collaborative leader," said Roberts successful a statement. "He is the perfect idiosyncratic to assistance pb Comcast arsenic we negociate the pivot we are making to thrust maturation crossed the company. Mike and I enactment seamlessly together, and I americium thrilled to beryllium partnering with him arsenic Co-CEO and with the remainder of our talented management team, for years to come."

Initially, Cavanagh served arsenic main fiscal serviceman of the cablegram giant, which consists of a broadband, cablegram TV and mobile institution arsenic good arsenic NBCUniversal.

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