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Russ Chandler
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Russ Chandler was named Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief
Financial Officer for Comcast-Spectacor on August 23, 2010. Prior to joining
Comcast-Spectacor, he spent 18 years with Comcast Corporation.
Chandler is responsible for overseeing all day-to-day financial aspects
of the company, including financial reporting, budgeting, taxation, and
treasury functions. In addition, he serves on Comcast-Spectacor’s Office
of the Chair, the company’s executive management group.
At Comcast, Chandler was heavily involved in the launches of several new
networks for Comcast, including PBS Kids Sprout, TV One, and Comcast
SportsNet Chicago. He also handled sports television rights negotiations
for Comcast with the San Francisco Giants, the Oakland A’s, the Portland
Trailblazers, the San Jose Sharks, and the Washington Capitals.
Prior to joining Comcast, Chandler was a staff accountant for Deloitte & Touche from 1988 through 1990.
Chandler received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Boston University School of Management
in 1988 and his M.B.A., with honors, from Notre Dame in 1991. He is the father of two young children, son, RJ,
and daughter, Elise, and he resides in Mantua, NJ.
Phil Weinberg
Executive Vice President
General Counsel
Phil Weinberg has been Executive Vice President/General Counsel at
Comcast-Spectacor since the partnership was created in 1996. Previously,
Weinberg was Spectacor’s Vice President/General Counsel since
December of 1990.
Weinberg is responsible for oversight of all the company’s legal affairs,
including litigation, financing activities, and player related matters. He is
an alternate governor to the National Hockey League. He participated in
structuring the construction and permanent financing for the Wells Fargo
Center (1994) and in the merger between Comcast and Spectacor (1996).
Weinberg received a BA in Political Science from Hamilton College in
Clifton, New York, in 1977 and his law degree from Boston University
in 1983. Between 1977 and 1980, he served as an assistant to the
Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to joining Spectacor, he
was in the private practice of law for seven years, primarily with the litigation firm of Sprague and Sprague.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, the Comcast-Spectacor
Foundation, White Williams Scholars and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Weinberg resides in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Terry; daughter, Sydney; and son, Zachary.
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