Talent Catalyst

Amy Lynch is President of Comcast’s Northeast Division. In this role, she is the senior executive responsible for all aspects of operations across 15 northeastern states from Maine through North Carolina and the District of Columbia.

With more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications, media and technology, Amy is a seasoned executive with 22 years at Comcast in a variety of functions, including Sales & Marketing, Technical Operations, Engineering & Construction, Care, and Customer Experience. In her most recent position, she served as Comcast West Division Senior Vice President of Customer Experience and Customer Operations, where she oversaw all aspects of customer experience strategy, care and technical operations, logistics and tools. Previously, Amy served in a variety of executive leadership roles, including Regional Senior Vice President of both Comcast’s Mountain West and Washington Regions, Vice President of Engineering Operations for Comcast’s West Division and Regional Vice President of Technical Operations for the California Region.

Amy has been the recipient of numerous honors, including being inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers Class of 2023 and named the Woman of the Year by the Women in Cable Telecommunications’ Rocky Mountain chapter. She has been named San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women, one of Seattle’s Women to Watch, been on Cablefax Magazine’s Top 100 Regional Power Players list for more than a decade and was included on Cablefax Magazine’s Most Powerful Women of 2023 list. In 2022, Amy was a member of the Comcast team that received a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award in recognition of their work on network technology innovation.

Amy is an active member of Society of Cable Television Engineers and Women in Cable Telecommunications. She is an involved leader in the community, serving on several boards and committees including the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, Girls Inc. of Metro Denver, Colorado’s Woman’s Foundation and Advisor to the President of Colorado Community Colleges.

A New England native, Amy and her husband live nearby Boston, MA. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut in addition to leadership certificates from Dartmouth, Tuck School of Business and Harvard.

Christine Whitaker is the President of Comcast’s Central Division, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The division is home to approximately 21,000 Comcast employees with more than 20 million combined video, high-speed Internet and voice customers throughout the 12 states that comprise the Central Division.

A 25-year veteran of the cable industry, Christine most recently served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration for Comcast’s Northeast Division, where she was responsible for overseeing all customer experience and financial aspects of the business for the division, which served approximately 9.5 million customers.

Prior to her role as Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, Christine served as the Senior Vice President for Comcast’s Keystone Region. Here she was responsible for operations, financial performance, and customer service for approximately 1.7 million customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio.
Before her role in the Keystone Region, Christine served as the Group Vice President, Chief Learning Officer for Time Warner Cable, where she led the company’s employee learning and leadership development programs, including the design and delivery of content for 55,000 employees.

In recognition of her accomplishments, Christine has been honored with many business and industry awards for her leadership, repeatedly named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” by CableFax Magazine and recognized as a “Wonder Woman” by Multichannel News.

Christine started her career in public accounting as a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University. In addition, she has completed executive education programs for Telecommunications through Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute of Women in Cable Telecommunications.

Rich Jennings is the senior executive responsible for all Comcast cable operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Texas, Idaho, and Wisconsin.

In his most recent role, Rich served as Comcast West Division Senior Vice President of Field Operations. With responsibility for the overall health and performance of the West Division’s regional operations, his primary focus was on Technical Operations for the division and collaborating to deliver the very best customer experience. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice President for the Mountain West Region for eight years.

Rich began his career in Telecommunications as an Assistant General Manager with Time Warner Cable in 1993. He became General Manager for small cable systems in southern California and in 1996, accepted the role of Area General Manager for several acquisition properties in southeastern Wisconsin. In May of 2000, he was named Vice President of Operations for Time Warner’s southeastern Wisconsin division. In 2005, Rich joined Comcast as the Area Vice President in Denver, Colorado, and in 2009 he was named Regional Vice President of Fulfillment for the Freedom Region managing field operations across southern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and New Jersey. In 2011, Rich returned to Denver to serve as Regional Vice President of Comcast’s Mile High Region overseeing the company’s operations in Colorado and New Mexico and was promoted to Senior Vice President for the region in 2012. In 2015, Rich was named Senior Vice President for the newly formed Mountain West Region, overseeing operations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Idaho.

In Rich’s 27-year history in Telecommunications, he’s had full operational and profit and loss accountability for the business. His process flow improvements and customer care initiatives enhanced consumer value while creating operational efficiencies. In addition to his attention to the external customer, Rich has a deep passion for personal and team development.

With a strong belief in integrating family, work, and community, Rich has a robust history of community service. He’s participated in numerous community and industry organizations over his career which include: the Young Americans Bank and Center for Financial Education (the world’s only state-chartered, FDIC-Insured bank, exclusively for young people under the age of 22), the Urban League, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Junior Achievement, the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC), and Women In Cable Telecommunications (WICT).

Rich was named in the “Top 40 under 40” executives in the Telecommunications Industry by MultiChannel News in 2006. He was recognized as an influential leader by Cable World Magazine and was a NAMIC Luminary Award recipient. He has also been repeatedly recognized by CableFax magazine as one of the most influential minorities in cable and top 100 overall leaders in the industry. In 2015, Rich was honored as Father of the Year by the American Diabetes Association, Colorado chapter for his commitment to his family and the community. In 2017, he was named Mentor of the Year by the Colorado chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications. Rich is a Chicago native and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he received his business degree with a concentration in Marketing. He has completed executive education programs and Telecommunications through the University of Denver, UCLA and Harvard Business School.

Dan Bonelli is Regional Senior Vice President of Comcast’s Freedom Region, one of Comcast’s largest operating systems, serving more than two million customers in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, New Jersey, and northern Delaware. In addition to overseeing approximately 2,500 employees, Dan is responsible for his Region’s operations, financial performance, and customer service.

Previously, Dan served as Regional Vice President – Finance & Operations for Freedom. In this position, Dan led all the financial, accounting, reporting and budgeting activities for Freedom Region. He also served as Vice President – Finance for the Western New England Region, responsible for overseeing Finance and Accounting and a number of other functions within the region, including Warehouse & Materials, IT, Facilities, Security, Fleet Management, and Environmental Health & Safety.

Dan joined Comcast in 2007 as a Financial Analyst after previously working as a Defined Benefit Analyst for Prudential Retirement. In 2009, he was promoted to Marketing Manager – Analytics, then to Director of Finance the following year and Senior Director in 2014, which involved providing financial oversight and operational support for all of the region’s primary business units. Between 2016 and 2018, he worked as Senior Director of Finance in Comcast’s Freedom Region.

Dan has also actively contributed to Comcast’s community investment efforts, representing the company on the board of directors for the Middlesex, CT YMCA for four years and on the board of the New Britain, CT High School Finance Academy for one year.

A graduate of Central Connecticut State University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance.  Dan resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his wife, Jill and three children.

David Tashjian currently serves as Comcast’s Senior Vice President of the California region. In this role, he is responsible for all Comcast cable operations in California. He leads nearly 3,100 employees and serves more than 3.5 million customers, driving annual revenue of $6 billion. David is responsible for technical operations, engineering, business operations, marketing, external affairs, human resources, growth, customer experience, financial health of the region, and most importantly the satisfaction and engagement of the team.

David has more than 18 years at Comcast and 28 years in the industry. Most recently, David served as Senior Vice President of the Oregon/SW Washington region, which serves ~1 million residential and business customers and previously held the title of Vice President of Sales Strategy and Operations for Comcast’s West Division, based in Denver, CO. In this role he provided strategic leadership to support and grow Comcast’s residential consumer products in the 10 States. David’s team, in collaboration with region leadership, was responsible for designing the go-to-market strategy and playbook for all field sales channels, additional responsibilities included back-office support for 5,000+ teammates consisting of communications, escalations and compensation. David joined Comcast in 2005 and has a variety of roles, first in Delaware, Virginia, and subsequently Beltway. In 2010 he joined the West Division as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in the Twin Cities. Previously, David worked for Dish Network in Chicago.

David has been successful in sales, operations and general management since his first leadership role at the age 19. His ability to identify the strengths in others that complement his teams is a large part of his success. David’s passion for his work, his commitment to seeing colleagues succeed, and his focus on results are the qualities that enable him to build great teams. David is a lifetime advocate, learner, ally, and teacher that helps others see there are many different paths to success.

When David isn’t working you can find him spending time with his wife Andrea, along with their children MJ and Liv. David is now proud to call California home and has lived in 17 cities! David is a former chef, has a passion for the arts of all kinds, and has served on multiple business and philanthropic boards. David has also completed multiple executive leadership programs at Harvard, Wharton and Stanford.

J.D. Keller serves as the Regional Senior Vice President for the Mountain West Region. In this role, he’s the top executive responsible for customer experience, sales, operations, and financial performance – serving customers and leading team members across Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Utah. Under his leadership, the Mountain West Region led the company in overall performance in 2022.

J.D. formerly served as the Regional Senior Vice President for the Midwest Region. During this time, the Midwest Region won the Region of the Year award in 2018, scored among the highest on employee satisfaction surveys, and led the Company in overall performance for two consecutive years.

In 2017, J.D. joined Comcast with more than 25 years of experience leading sales and operations in the consumer services industry. Prior to joining Comcast, he worked for a leading security services provider where he held several senior leadership roles, including Vice President West Region, directing the company’s largest field operation. Previously, J.D. held several senior leadership and general management roles, including Vice President Field Operations for North America and Vice President of Acquisition and Dealer Programs, where he led the largest authorized dealer group in North America.

A native of Utah, J.D. attended school on scholarship earning NJCAA letters in football and baseball, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in communication from the University of Utah. J.D. holds an MBA and certificates in Lean Six Sigma, Global Executive Leadership from Duke University, and Cable Executive Management from the Harvard Business School of Executive Education.

Jeff Buzzelli is the Regional Senior Vice President for Comcast’s Florida Region, which serves customers throughout Florida and portions of Alabama and Georgia and is Comcast’s largest region with over 3.5M business and residential customers. He is responsible for all business functions in Florida including technical, network and engineering operations, the launch and marketing of new products and services, and overall financial performance. Buzzelli began leading the Florida Region in July 2023.

Buzzelli, who joined Comcast in 2008, most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Business Services for the Central Division where he was responsible for developing and implementing strategies aimed at growing and evolving commercial business initiatives across a 17-state geography that spans one million customers. Buzzelli also served as the Senior Vice President of Comcast Business for the Northeast Division and Regional Vice President of Comcast Business for the Chicago Region.

With more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Buzzelli has held leadership positions within sales, marketing, and operations across large telecom firms such as AT&T, GTE/Verizon and Level 3 Communications.
Buzzelli currently serves on the Executive Board of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), and on the Executive Board for the Southeast Chapter of the American Heart Association. He is also an Executive Lead for Georgia Allies helping to promote the state’s business development efforts and is a charter member of the Board of Governors at the Georgia Chamber.

Buzzelli earned an MBA from the University of Dallas in Texas and a Bachelor of Science degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. He also completed the Harvard Business School Strategic Sales Leadership Program in 2016.

Kristee Cominiello currently serves as Senior Vice President of Comcast’s Heartland Region, based in Plymouth, MI. In this role, she is the top executive responsible for sales and marketing, operations, network development and customer service for more than 2.5 million customer relationships in approximately 800 communities across Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky as well as 2,700 employees throughout the region.

A 21-year veteran of the cable and telecommunications industry, Kristee began her career with Comcast in 2001 as a billing and repair representative at the company’s Denver call center. Most recently, she served as Comcast Business Vice President for the California region where she oversaw the sales and marketing strategy for providing a broad suite of telecommunications and technology solutions to small business, large enterprise, and local and state government customers. Kristee also served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the California region.

Kristee holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in marketing from Western Governors University. She also completed the Harvard Business School Cable Executive Management program earlier this year. Cominiello is a WICT Network Betsy Magness Leadership Institute graduate and served as dean for Comcast’s 2019 Residential Sales Executive Bootcamp.

Ray Roundtree serves as the Senior Vice President of Comcast’s Beltway Region. In this role, Ray is responsible for operations, financial performance, and service to customers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as well as parts of Delaware, North Carolina and West Virginia.
A 22-year veteran of Comcast, Ray has held senior leadership positions across multiple business units within the cable division, including Senior Vice President of the Keystone Region and Vice President of Finance for the Beltway Region and Florida Region.

Ray was named to the “2023 Pennsylvania Power 100” by Commonwealth media outlet City and State as well as the “2023 Men of Distinction” by the New Pittsburgh Courier. He is a dedicated supporter of DE&I, having served as Executive Sponsor for the Florida Region’s Black Employee Network (BEN) and co-lead of their DE&I Council.

Ray holds both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Pennsylvania State University where he played football for the renowned Nittany Lions.

Kevin is a seasoned leader with over 30 years of experience in the human capital space. He has coached hundreds of executives, worked with executive teams to gain greater alignment and productivity and has designed and implemented award-winning leadership learning processes and organization change initiatives. Kevin has worked across most major industries around the globe and brings significant experience with due diligence and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Kevin is a certified Bates ExPI feedback provider. The Bates ExPITM (Bates Executive Presence Index) is the first and only research-based, scientifically validated assessment to measure executive presence. He contributed to the development of the Bates LTPI team assessment and is certified the the BTS Change Ready Leader.

Kevin’s experience spans business and academia with expertise in consulting, facilitation and coaching. Prior to joining Bates (now BTS Boston), he served as Associate Dean for Executive & Professional Programs at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. In addition, he had a private coaching and consulting firm, Blueprint Business Consulting. Prior to Daniels, Kevin was the Chief Consulting Officer at Interaction Associates (IA) where he was responsible for the quality, growth and development of Interaction Associates’ 50-person Talent Network. Prior to IA, Kevin served as the Chief Operating Officer for Karlin Sloan & Company (KS&C) where he oversaw Sales, Client Relations and Operations. KS&C is a leadership development consulting firm that specializes in executive coaching.
Kevin has also served as the worldwide head of Human Resources for Swissotel, as a Senior Managing Consultant at the Gallup Organization, and as a Director of Research at the Hay Group.

He is a co-author of “Lemonade, the Leader’s Guide to Resilience at Work.” During his tenure at the Gallup Organization, he contributed to the research and writing of the book, “First, Break all the Rules,” by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
Kevin holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he also has served on the faculty. He has served on a number of for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and Switzerland.

Anton Franckeiss is an Executive Advisor and Consultant with Bates, a BTS Company. Anton is a highly experienced leadership coach, consultant and business leader, who has worked at the senior levels in both in house and external partnering consultancy roles. Anton has more than 30 years’ hands on experience in executive coaching and advisory, CEO succession, leadership assessment, OD and change management, strategic communications, and business consulting at senior levels.

Most recently, Anton ran his own independent consulting practice, delivering change, executive leadership and talent management solutions for senior leaders globally. His clients include General Mills, Ecolab, Rio Tinto, HSBC, Bentley Motor Cars, MGM Resorts, Chevron, Bombardier and UC & Syneos Health. Anton also served as the Senior Advisor of Assessment and Coaching at the Mays Business School (at
Texas A&M) supporting major clients, including Halliburton and the US Marine Corps.

Anton has held a series of senior leadership roles throughout his career, running large teams and consulting practices with strong P&L, business development, and management responsibilities.

He is a Senior Chartered Fellow of CIPD and Executive Member of SIOP and has published dozens of articles on HR Strategy, Talent, OD, and Change Management.

He is a Member of Association of Coaching (UK), Director of European Mentoring and Coaching Council, (Europe), and Director of International Coaching Federation Master Coach (Singapore Chapter ). Anton is also an ICF Master Coach and certified to administer a wide range of leadership assessments, including the Hogan, Thomas Kilman , Kolbe, and the Bates ExPI TM and LTPI TM He
was awarded his Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Leadership from Marlborough University Graduate School.