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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On March 15, 2023, Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr. was appointed as a director of Comcast Corporation (the “Company”), effective immediately. The Company’s Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Baltimore is independent in accordance with applicable Nasdaq rules and the Company’s corporate governance guidelines. He has not yet been appointed to serve as a member of any Board committee.
Mr. Baltimore is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a lodging and real estate investment trust. He was the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of trustees of RLJ Lodging Trust from 2011 to 2016 and Co-Founder and President of RLJ Development, LLC from 2000-2011. Prior to that, he held various management positions at Hilton Hotels Corporation, Marriott Corporation and Host Marriott Services Corporation. Mr. Baltimore has served as a director of American Express Company since January 2021 and was a director of Prudential Financial, Inc. until March 14, 2023 after almost 15 years of service. He also serves on the boards of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, The Real Estate Roundtable and the UVA McIntire School of Commerce Foundation and on the executive committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association.
Mr. Baltimore will receive compensation in accordance with Comcast’s 2002 Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan, as further described in the Company’s proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2022, and has entered into the Company’s standard form of director indemnification agreement.
Item 9.01(d). Exhibits
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| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| COMCAST CORPORATION | ||||
| Date: | March 15, 2023 | By: | /s/ Elizabeth Wideman | |
| Name: | Elizabeth Wideman | |||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, Senior Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary | |||