Steve Burke (businessman)
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Stephen B. "Steve" Burke (born 1958) is Executive Vice President of Comcast
and CEO/President
of NBC Universal
. Burke is a director at JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway
.
Since he joined Comcast as President of Comcast Cable in 1998, Comcast has become the largest cable company, largest residential internet service provider, third largest phone company in America and launched a wireless business. Mr. Burke led Comcast to leadership in multiplatform video entertainment distribution, including the Company's industry changing video on demand platform and online video offerings. He has been praised for leading the highly successful integration of AT&T Broadband with Comcast.
Prior to Comcast, Burke served with The Walt Disney Company as President of ABC Broadcasting. Mr. Burke joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1986, where he helped to develop and found The Disney Stores. In 1992, he moved to Euro Disney S.A., where, as President and Chief Operating Officer, he helped to lead a comprehensive restructuring effort.
Burke is an Irish Catholic
and Republican. His father, Daniel B. Burke, was a former president of Capital Cities Communications
, the company that once owned the ABC network.
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 with launching a wireless business. Burke also led Comcast to leadership in multiplatform video entertainment distribution, including the company’s industry-changing video-on-demand platform and online video offerings. He has been praised for leading the highly successful integration of AT&T Broadband with Comcast.
Prior to Comcast, Burke served with The Walt Disney Company as President of ABC Broadcasting. Burke joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1986, where he helped to develop and found The Disney Stores. In 1992, he moved to Euro Disney S.A., where, as President and Chief Operating Officer, he helped to lead a comprehensive restructuring effort.
Burke serves on the board of directors of NBCUniversal, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which was rated as the No. 1 children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report in 2009 and 2010.
Burke, 53, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and five children.
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
and CEO/President
President
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of NBC Universal
NBC Universal
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. Burke is a director at JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company averaged an annual growth in book value of 20.3% to its shareholders for the last 44 years,...
.
Since he joined Comcast as President of Comcast Cable in 1998, Comcast has become the largest cable company, largest residential internet service provider, third largest phone company in America and launched a wireless business. Mr. Burke led Comcast to leadership in multiplatform video entertainment distribution, including the Company's industry changing video on demand platform and online video offerings. He has been praised for leading the highly successful integration of AT&T Broadband with Comcast.
Prior to Comcast, Burke served with The Walt Disney Company as President of ABC Broadcasting. Mr. Burke joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1986, where he helped to develop and found The Disney Stores. In 1992, he moved to Euro Disney S.A., where, as President and Chief Operating Officer, he helped to lead a comprehensive restructuring effort.
Burke is an Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...
and Republican. His father, Daniel B. Burke, was a former president of Capital Cities Communications
Capital Cities Communications
Capital Cities redirects here. For the article about the seat of a government, see Capital .Capital Cities Communications was an American media company best known for its surprise purchase of the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985...
, the company that once owned the ABC network.
Biography
Steve Burke is Chief Executive Officer of NBCUniversal. He oversees 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 this role 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. He previously 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 with launching a wireless business. Burke also led Comcast to leadership in multiplatform video entertainment distribution, including the company’s industry-changing video-on-demand platform and online video offerings. He has been praised for leading the highly successful integration of AT&T Broadband with Comcast.
Prior to Comcast, Burke served with The Walt Disney Company as President of ABC Broadcasting. Burke joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1986, where he helped to develop and found The Disney Stores. In 1992, he moved to Euro Disney S.A., where, as President and Chief Operating Officer, he helped to lead a comprehensive restructuring effort.
Burke serves on the board of directors of NBCUniversal, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which was rated as the No. 1 children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report in 2009 and 2010.
Burke, 53, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and five children.