Comcast Names Former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas to Board

Wonya Lucas, former president and CEO of Hallmark Media Networks, has joined Comcast‘s board as an neutral director.

Comcast launched Lucas’s addition to the board, productive as of April 15, in an SEC submitting Monday. She has not however been appointed to function a member of any board committee, according to the distributing.

Lucas was president and CEO of Hallmark Media, which operates Hallmark-branded cable networks, from 2020 until she stepped down from the place within the summertime of 2023. All through her tenure on the corporate, she labored to make Hallmark programming further fairly just a few and inclusive whereas moreover organising partnerships with platforms like NBCUniversal’s Peacock, YouTube and Hulu along with free ad-supported platforms.

She was a member of Hallmark Media’s board of administrators till April 2024. Lucas has served as a director of Atlanta Braves Holdings as a result of 2023.

Earlier to beginning to be a member of Hallmark Media, Lucas was president and chief authorities officer of Group Broadcasting Atlanta from 2015 to 2020 president of Lucas Strategic Consultants LLC from 2013 to 2015 and president and CEO of Television Only one from 2011 to 2013.

Lucas’ appointment expands the size of the Comcast board to 12 directors.

Comcast’s 11 distinct board prospects are: chairman and CEO Brian Roberts Kenneth Bacon (confederate at RailField Companions) Thomas Baltimore Jr. (chairman, president and CEO of Park Lodging &#038 Resorts) Madeline Bell (president and CEO of Children’s Medical heart of Philadelphia) Louise Brady (co-founder and dealing with confederate of Piedmont Funds) Edward Breen (governing administration chairman and CEO of DuPont) Gerald Hassell (former CEO of the Economical establishment of New York Mellon) Jeffrey Honickman (CEO of Pepsi-Cola &#038 Nationwide Product Drinks Ltd.) Maritza Montiel (earlier vice chairman of Deloitte) Asuka Nakahara (confederate in Triton Atlantic Companions) and David Novak (earlier CEO of Yum Makers).