Steve Burke

Burke was previously Chief Executive Officer of NBCUniversal from 2011 to 2019, where he oversaw the company's valuable portfolio of news, sports, and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. Burke assumed the role of NBCUniversal CEO in January 2011, upon the closing of Comcast and General Electric's joint venture merging the assets of NBC Universal with Comcast's programming assets. Prior to that, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Comcast Corporation, where he was a driving force in its growth from a cable industry leader to one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. Burke joined Comcast in 1998 as President of Comcast Cable. During his tenure, Comcast became the largest cable company, largest residential Internet service provider, and third-largest phone company in America, along w