Comcast Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer David L. Cohen distributes laptops in Miami as part of the company’s Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 announcement that it is significantly expanding eligibility for Comcast’s Internet Essentials: the nation's largest, most comprehensive, and most successful broadband adoption program in America, to include all qualified low-income households in its service area. Since 2011, Comcast has invested more than $650 million to support digital literacy training and awareness, reaching more than 9.5 million low-income Americans.
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Comcast Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer David L. Cohen distributes laptops in Miami as part of the company’s Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 announcement that it is significantly expanding eligibility for Comcast’s Internet Essentials: the nation's largest, most comprehensive, and most successful broadband adoption program in America, to include all qualified low-income households in its service area. Since 2011, Comcast has invested more than $650 million to support digital literacy training and awareness, reaching more than 9.5 million low-income Americans.
(Undated) — A top Comcast executive who’s been a longtime civic leader in Philadelphia is stepping down from his operational duties next year as he turns 65.
David L. Cohen has helped guide the cable giant’s lobbying, communications and corporate administration as senior executive vice president.
The former law firm partner has been at Comcast since 2002.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in a company memo Thursday says Cohen will stay on as a senior advisor.
He is also the chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees and was chief of staff to former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell .
