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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Comcast Industry: Media & Telecommunications

Few executives have spent five decades preparing for a fight this interesting. Brian Roberts joined the cable company his father founded, built it through audacity, the Disney raid, the NBCUniversal coup, the Sky conquest, and now presides over its boldest reshaping, spinning the cable networks into Versant while betting the remainder on broadband, streaming and theme parks. Epic Universe opened, Peacock found sport and the NBA returned to NBC. He shares the top job with Mike Cavanagh, a succession on unhurried terms. The generational scoreboard keeps favouring the family firm. businesschief. com 71