Susan Jin Davis
Former Chief Sustainability Officer
Al Roker Entertainment
Susan Jin Davis has 30 years of experience in the telecommunications, media, entertainment, production, and technology industries. She is the former Chief Sustainability Officer for Comcast Corporation and Social Impact Officer for Al Roker Entertainment, a leading producer of TV, digital, branded programming and entertainment. Most recently, Ms. Jin Davis has recently joined JTWO, an Emmy Award-Winning full-service video production company as the Chief Content Officer. She also serves as a consultant in the areas of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), business strategy, leadership, non-profit governance, and organizational development.
As Comcast NBCUniversal’s first Chief Sustainability Officer, Ms. Jin Davis was responsible for identifying sustainable strategies and priorities and for implementing the company’s Sustainability Program across all of Comcast NBCUniversal business units and functions. She created the framework for the company’s Environmental, Social, and Governance disclosures; she established Comcast NBCUniversal’s renewable energy strategy, and implemented energy efficiency initiatives across Comcast Cable, NBCUniversal and Comcast Spectacor. In addition, Ms. Jin Davis created Comcast NBCUniversal’s zero waste strategy and co-led its future of fleet strategy, transforming the company’s fleet to low-carbon vehicles.
Ms. Jin Davis is highly experienced in a multitude of areas of corporate compliance. Prior to her promotion as CSO, Ms. Jin Davis served as Senior Vice President of Operations Compliance at Comcast, where she implemented product policies, operationalized regulatory and legal requirements, reduced costs to the cable business, and managed business compliance. In this capacity, she established and managed a customer call center that dealt with customer issues on privacy, data security, piracy, and cybersecurity, a ground breaking approach to these business-impacting issues. She was also responsible for Comcast’s environment, health, and safety function. Ms. Jin Davis also served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Communications and Data Services and Vice President of Corporate Development, Voice Services where she managed voice, data, and wireless policies such as emergency services, privacy/customer proprietary network information (CPNI), interconnection, and online safety and security.
Ms. Jin Davis is a well-experienced and well-respected executive in the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion. While at Comcast, Ms. Jin Davis negotiated a historic Memorandum of Understanding between Comcast and the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) national community as part of the company’s acquisition of NBCUniversal. This created ground-breaking diversity commitments in the areas of programming, supplier and employment, and community investment. She served on Comcast’s Internal Diversity Council and she was the company liaison to the external Comcast NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Council. Ms. Jin Davis was the executive sponsor of Asian Pacific Americans at Comcast, a company-sponsored employee resource group, which focuses on the recruiting, promotion, and development of Asian American and Pacific Islander talent. She has helped to create leadership development programming for Comcast’s AAPI employees.
Ms. Jin Davis established Comcast’s partnerships with AAPI national community organizations in the areas of civic involvement and political representation, media and entertainment, leadership development, civil and human rights, and youth empowerment. She was also responsible for the creation of Comcast’s Cinema Asian America, the first-ever video-on-demand offering of Asian and Asian American television and movie content on the Comcast network.
She led the launch of Comcast’s Internet Essentials Program, which offers affordable high-speed internet for low-income households. Now in its tenth year, Internet Essentials is Comcast’s largest, most successful community investment initiative, which has connected more than 10 million low-income Americans to all the opportunities of a digital world through low-cost, high-speed internet at home. She was responsible for the pricing and packaging strategy, marketing and community engagement, and managing the call center that handled customer applications, installation, and trouble ticketing.
An advocate for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) in business and corporate America, she is active in the AANHPI community nationally. She is the Chair Emeritus of the Board of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) and serves on the Board of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE) and AAPI LEAD. Additionally, Ms. Jin Davis is a past board member of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP) and the Asian and Pacific American Scholarship Fund (APIA Scholars). Ms. Jin Davis serves as a Commissioner on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Commission on AAPI Affairs.