NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations has promoted Jeffrey Stone to the role of Chief Financial Officer. In this position, he will manage the financial operations for NBCUniversal’s division that includes 42 NBC and Telemundo owned stations, a regional news network, two multicast networks, and their subsidiary businesses.
Stone joins the owned stations division from NBCUniversal’s Operations and Technology group, where he also served as CFO.
Stone will report to Valari Staab, President, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.
Staab said, “Jeff is a trusted advisor and well respected by his colleagues and peers. His experiences at both NBCUniversal and Comcast will bring valuable perspective to his new role with our group. I am pleased that he’s joining our owned stations family at an inflection point of rapid and exciting changes in our industry. I look forward to working with him to strengthen our local businesses, while continuing to reinforce our position as the only TV group in the country that can keep local English and Spanish-speaking audiences informed anytime and anywhere.”
Before joining NBCUniversal, Stone worked at Comcast Corporation for 10 years and held roles with increasing responsibilities at both Corporate and Regional business units. Before this, Stone worked at KPMG, LLP performing audits of publicly traded companies in the financial services, healthcare and education sectors.
