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Matthew Strauss |
Matt Strauss serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Comcast Interactive Media. In this role, he leads the company’s online and multiplatform entertainment and media businesses, including Comcast.net, Xfinity.com and XfinityTV.com.
Mr. Strauss has worked for more than 15 years in programming and emerging media and has significant experience working with the television and movie studio programming community to develop and distribute multiplatform entertainment.
Previously, Mr. Strauss served as Senior Vice President, New Media for Comcast Cable where he was responsible for content acquisition and strategy for Comcast’s On Demand platform and Internet properties, including Comcast.net, XfinityTV.com and emerging interactive platforms. He helped Comcast build out its video-on-demand platform, significantly increasing the number of choices available to customers, was one of the architects who developed the company’s online video service XfinityTV.com, and led the company’s early 3D strategy.
Prior to joining Comcast, Mr. Strauss served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Rainbow Media’s On Demand Service Mag Rack where he pioneered the video-on-demand model with one of the first national on-demand networks. Prior to overseeing the launch of Mag Rack in 2001, he served as Vice President of Business Development for Rainbow Media, where he led the organization’s acquisition strategy for new and traditional media. He also held several management positions with Disney/ABC, including serving in the Strategic Planning department for the ABC Television Network.
Mr. Strauss has received several cable industry awards, including the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing’s Mark Award, CableFax magazine’s Programmer of the Year and the Multichannel News Innovator of the Year Award for programming. He currently serves on the boards of directors for PBS Kids Sprout, Exercise TV and FEARnet.
He holds a B.S. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and resides in Cherry Hill, NJ, with his wife and four children.
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