Amy Banse has headed Comcast Ventures, where she is a managing director and head of funds, since May last year, leading strategy. This dates back to Comcast’s corporate venturing unit merger with NBC’s Peacock Fund, creating a $750m fund.
Banse previously founded Comcast Interactive Media in 2005 and led the company’s online strategy over the next six years, overseeing various acquisitions and in-house projects, including Comcast.net, Xfinity.com, Fancast and Swirl.
She became a director of US-based technology company Adobe Systems and has Comcast portfolio companies Blogher, FlipBoard and Plum District listed as current companies.
Banse joined Comcast in 1991 as an in-house attorney for programming acquisition. She worked on the development of Comcast’s cable network portfolio, including the company’s investments in E! Entertainment Television and the Golf Channel. She has a degree from Harvard University and studied at Temple University’s James E Beasley School of Law.