Amy Banse

Bio

Amy Banse serves as Managing Director and Head of Funds for Comcast Corporation, leading the strategy for the company’s venture capital initiatives, which includes overseeing the $500 million Comcast Ventures Fund and the $250 million Peacock Equity Fund. Before joining Comcast Ventures, Banse was President of Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), a division of Comcast Corporation responsible for developing and operating online tools and businesses focused on entertainment, information and communication. Banse founded CIM in December of 2005 and led Comcast’s online strategy over the next 5 years, overseeing the acquisition of Fandango (the movie ticketing site), Daily Candy (the popular email newsletter), Plaxo (the smart contacts site), and thePlatform (the industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions) as well as the in-house development and management of Comcast.net, Xfinity.com and Xfinitytv.com (Comcast’s portals), Fancast, (a leading television entertainment site) and Swirl (Daily Candy’s sample sales site). In this role, Ms. Banse grew CIM into a 800-person team with significant digital capabilities and played a key part in the industry’s development of its TV Everywhere strategy and in Comcast’s execution of that strategy. Before leading CIM, Ms. Banse served as Executive Vice President of Content Development where she oversaw the development of Comcast’s cable network portfolio, including the company’s investments in E! Entertainment Television, The Golf Channel, and VERSUS and the development and launch of G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and Comcast’s sports networks. She first joined Comcast in 1991 as an in-house attorney responsible for programming acquisition. Ms. Banse has represented Comcast as a featured speaker in venues around the country discussing the rapid evolution of content consumption in a digital world and the opportunities and challenges facing the cable and entertainment industries. She has been named among the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” and the “Top Programmers to Watch” by CableWorld magazine. She has also been named among the Cable 100 by Multichannel News and the Digital Power list, by The Hollywood Reporter. She was honored as a “Wonder Woman” by Multichannel News and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) in 2004, received WICT’s Geraldine B. Laybourne Fearless Award in 2009 and ProMax’s Brand Builder Award in 2010. Laybourne Fearless Award in 2009 and ProMax’s Brand Builder Award in 2010. Ms. Banse sits on the Board of Springside School for Girls. In 2007, she received “The Distinguished Alumni Award” from Springside School, and in 2006 she was honored by Girls, Inc. as an outstanding role model for girls. Ms. Banse is also a member of The Forum of Executive Women, the Philadelphia region's premier women's organization. Ms. Banse received a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Temple University Law School.