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Michael J. Cavanagh, ’88 BA, JD

Trustee

Michael J. Cavanagh serves as co-chief executive officer of Comcast Corporation, a Fortune 50 global media and technology company that reaches hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide through the connectivity and platforms it provides and the content and experiences it creates.

Mr. Cavanagh has a broad range of responsibilities, partnering with chairman and co-chief executive officer Brian Roberts to manage all aspects of the business. Comcast has more than 170,000 employees worldwide, $117 billion in annual revenue, and is one of the twenty most profitable companies in the United States.

Mr. Cavanagh joined Comcast in 2015 as the company’s chief financial officer and was promoted to president in 2022. Prior to Comcast, he spent more than twenty years in the financial services industry. He was the co-chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase’s Corporate & Investment Bank from 2012 to 2014, a global leader in its industry with over $30 billion in revenue at the time and more than 60,000 employees working in nearly 100 countries. In this role, Mr. Cavanagh co-headed all investment banking, cash management, investor services and the largest global markets and trading business in the world. Prior to that, he served as JPMorgan Chase’s chief financial officer for six years, where he helped the company successfully navigate the financial crisis. In addition, at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor firms, Mr. Cavanagh held various key positions that were critical to the company’s success, including chief executive officer of the firm’s treasury and securities services division, head of strategy and planning, and chief operating officer of middle market banking.

Immediately prior to joining Comcast, he briefly served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of The Carlyle Group, a leading global alternative asset manager.

Mr. Cavanagh earned a B.A. from ÃÛÌÒTV and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He serves on the board of HealthVerity and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. At ÃÛÌÒTV, he served as a non-trustee member of the ÃÛÌÒTV Corporation Committee on Investments before being appointed chairman of the committee. Mr. Cavanagh was appointed a successor trustee in 2020.

Resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania