richard licataRichard Licata, executive VP-communications at NBC Entertainment, is leaving the Comcast unit after a three-year stint.

He will consult there through early December to help promote the debut of live version of Peter Pan.

In a memo to staffers, Licata said he's leaving following the death of his father. That passing triggered a personal introspection in which he thought about the iimportant things in life.

Licata wrote of his father's lesson about "the satisfaction of re-building something from the ground up." That "passion for making things better that led me into the trenches first at FOX and then later Showtime," he wrote.

He believes NBC's own comeback story provides a good opportunity to pursue another opportunity to "find something to rebuild again" and "to get my blood pumping climbing a new summit."