By Greg Hazley
Joe Waz, senior VP of external affairs and public policy counsel for Comcast who played a key role in shepherding its acquisition of NBC Universal to regulatory approval, will retire at the end of April after 17 years.
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Sena Fitzmaurice, senior VP of government communications for the company, told O’Dwyer’s that some executives will take responsibility for parts of Waz’ job and there will be a search for a new head of policy.
Waz spent 11 years at D.C. public affairs shop The Wexler Group before joining the Philadelphia-based cable giant in 1994. He started out with Ralph Nader’s Telecommunications Research and Action Center in 1979.
“No one has been more tireless in representing the company on public policy issues,” Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said in a statement.
Waz is slated to step down on April 30 and will start a consulting practice with Comcast as a charter client. He has also taken a post as senior fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Comcast closed the NBC deal in late January.
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