Lynn Charytan

Lynn Charytan serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Comcast Cable.  In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the full range of legal affairs of Comcast Cable and the wide array of technologies, products, and services delivered to both consumers and businesses in 39 states and Washington, DC.  Additionally, in her continuing role as Senior Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel for Comcast Corporation, Lynn oversees the Company’s regulatory compliance with the NBCUniversal transaction requirements. Lynn previously served as Senior Vice President of Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General Counsel of Comcast Corporation, responsible for providing corporate-wide legal advice on regulatory matters and overseeing the Company’s legal regulatory advocacy, including filings in federal and state regulatory proceedings and related litigation and appeals. Prior to joining Comcast in 2010, Lynn spent more than 17 years at WilmerHale in Washington, DC, where she served as the chair of its Communications, Privacy and Internet Law Practice Group. Prior to joining WilmerHale in 1993, Ms. Charytan spent two years as in-house counsel to The Washington Post.  She also clerked for Judge Stanley Sporkin on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Lynn has received many accolades for her exceptional legal skills, having been ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, included in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of communications law, and ranked for several years running with the highest possible rating in Martindale-Hubbel’s Top Rated Lawyerslist.  She has also been widely recognized for her leadership and achievements in the cable industry, having been repeatedly named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” by CableFax Magazine, recognized as a “Wonder Woman” by Multichannel News, named as a CableFax Top Lawyer and among the CableFax 100.