Comcast Names Kathryn S. Koles Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), the country's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, today announced that Kathryn S. Koles has been promoted to Vice President, Deputy General Counsel for Comcast Cable.
"Kathryn is a great asset to Comcast," said Doug Gaston, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Comcast Cable. "She provides strong leadership, excellent judgment and extensive industry experience to the Cable Law Department."
Ms. Koles joined Comcast in 2002 as Senior Counsel and provides legal counsel for Comcast Spotlight, Inc., the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, and Comcast Cable's Content Acquisition Group. She has more than 10 years of legal experience in the telecommunications industry, also having served as Senior Operations Counsel for AT&T Broadband (formerly Tele-Communications, Inc.). Ms. Koles is a 2006 graduate of the Betsy Magnus Leadership Institute, a nationally recognized leadership program sponsored by Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT).
Ms. Koles holds a J. D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, an M.A. in French Literature and Language from Middlebury College and a B.A. in French Literature and Language from Bucknell University. She lives in Basking Ridge, NJ.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. With 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet business. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.