Biography

Lawrence J. Salva Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller Comcast Corporation

Lawrence J. Salva serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Controller for Comcast Corporation. As Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Salva is responsible for external financial and management reporting.  As Corporate Controller, he is responsible for corporate accounting and corporate internal controls, risk management, and support of the corporate financial planning and analysis functions.

Prior to joining Comcast in January 2000, Mr. Salva was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 12 years, where he held various positions of increasing responsibility.  Following the merger of Coopers & Lybrand and Pricewaterhouse in 1998, Mr. Salva was named as the national technical accounting consulting partner and regional risk management partner for PwC’s Southeast Region.  Mr. Salva also served as a Professional Accounting Fellow with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant. 

Mr. Salva served as Chairperson of the Committee on Corporate Reporting, the senior technical committee of FEI, through June 2007 and continues as a member of its Executive Subcommittee.  He is a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and a member of the Board of Directors of the Rowan University Foundation.  In 2006, Mr. Salva was named to Business Finance magazine’s top 60 influencers list, and to Treasury and Risk magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in Finance” list.

Mr. Salva graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Glassboro State/Rowan University in 1977.  He is a CPA in Pennsylvania and is a member of the AICPA, PICPA, and Financial Executives International.

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