NBCU Promotes Kini to Chief Financial Officer

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Comcast’s NBCUniversal unit named Anand Kini as chief financial officer.

Kini had been executive VP of strategy and business insights at NBCU and had been serving as interim CFO since Vasant Prabhu left the company to join Visa. Kini reports to NBCU CEO Steve Burke and remains a member of the executive committee.

At NBC, Kini has helped lead the data-driven consumer and business insights division and the information technology group.

Before joining NBCU in 2011, Kini was senior VP, financial planning and analysis for Comcast Cable Communications. Previously, he worked for Activision Blizzard and Walt Disney Co.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.