D’Arcy F. Rudnay serves as Chief Communications Officer for Comcast Corporation, a Fortune 50 global media and technology company. In this role, she serves as the communications counsel to the Chairman and CEO and other members of the executive team and leads the management of the company’s brand, reputation and strategic communications activities across Comcast Corporation.
With over 35 years of experience in strategic communications in a broad array of industries, D’Arcy oversees all communications for Comcast’s financial reporting, crisis management, federal and regulatory activities, product launches, employee relations, diversity, and social and digital media. Additionally, she leads the strategic communications for Comcast’s mergers and acquisitions which included managing the cross functional communications team surrounding Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal. In 2012, she led the rebranding of Comcast Corporation following this acquisition with a particular emphasis on repositioning the company in the media and technology industries.
Since her arrival at Comcast in 2003 as Vice President of Corporate Communications, D’Arcy has led all strategic corporate branding and communications as the company has grown from 42,000 employees and 10 million combined video, high-speed Internet, and voice customers to more than 125,000 employees and 50 million combined customers today. During her tenure, she has led the repositioning of Comcast following its acquisitions of AT&T Broadband (2003) and Adelphia (2005) and was subsequently promoted to Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications in 2007 and Chief Communications Officer in 2012.
Prior to joining Comcast, D’Arcy spent ten years in the financial services industry, most recently at Lincoln Financial Group as Vice President of Corporate Communications and Media Relations and Vice President of the Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, and at Advanta Corporation where she was Vice President of Communications and Corporate Identity. Prior to Advanta Corporation, she worked in communications for The Pew Charitable Trusts and for strategic communications firms in Washington, D.C.
In 2012, D’Arcy was named one of the top 10 "50 Most Powerful People in PR" and in 2010 she was inducted into the Public Relations Hall of Fame as one of the Nation’s top 25 communications executives. She was also named among the "Most Powerful Women in Cable" in 2012, 2011 and 2010. In 2005, she was a recipient of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s "Women of Distinction" award and Profiles in Diversity Journal’s "Women Worth Watching" award. She has also served on the Board of Directors for a number of non-profit organizations, including the Steppingstone Foundation, Corporate Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, Advanta Foundation and the Delaware Valley Grantmakers.
D’Arcy earned a BA degree from Trinity College and an MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She resides in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with her husband and has two grown daughters.