Michael Cavanagh

Michael J. Cavanagh (born January 3, 1966) is an American business executive and lawyer serving as co-CEO of Comcast since 2026, in which capacity he also leads NBCUniversal. Cavanagh was previously president of Comcast from 2022 to 2026.

Early life and education Cavanagh completed a B.A. in history at Yale College in 1988. He subsequently obtained a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993.

Career Cavanagh worked for Citigroup for seven years. He served as CEO of the treasury and securities services division, and subsequently as the bank's chief financial officer (CFO) for six years, during which time JPMorgan navigated the 2008 financial crisis as one of the least affected major banks. From 2012 to 2014, Cavanagh served as co-CEO of the JPMorgan Corporate and Investment Bank. He was widely considered a potential successor to Dimon as CEO of JPMorgan Chase. In 2012, Cavanagh was tasked by Dimon with leading the bank's internal investigation into the London Whale derivatives trading scandal, in which JPMorgan lost over $6 billion and subsequently paid more than $20 billion in settlements.

In 2015, Cavanagh joined Comcast as its chief financial officer (CFO). In September 2025, Comcast announced that Cavanagh would be elevated to co-chief executive officer alongside chairman Brian Roberts, effective January 2026, and would join Comcast's board of directors at the same time.

On June 29, 2026, Comcast announced that it would spin-off NBCUniversal and merge it with Sky to form a new publicly-traded company under the NBCUniversal name, to be owned by Comcast shareholders, with Cavanagh as CEO.

Cavanagh is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of HealthVerity. By 2020, he was living in Philadelphia.