Chris Winfrey President & Chief Executive Officer
Charter’s President & Chief Executive Officer
Chris Winfrey’s leadership and commitment to the customer have put Spectrum at the forefront of the industry and expanded the reach of its converged connectivity products to nearly 57 million homes and businesses in 41 states. Chris has been President & Chief Executive Officer since December 2022 and was appointed to Charter’s Board of Directors in November 2023.
When becoming CEO, Chris launched a series of market-leading investment initiatives, including the largest cable network expansion since the 1980s, the largest physical upgrade of broadband networks since the 1990s, the continued convergence of its wireline and seamless connectivity capabilities, and significant investment in Spectrum’s customer service through investing in its employees to drive tenure and high-quality craftmanship.
In 2024, Chris launched Spectrum’s Customer Commitment, which builds on the Company’s customer-first philosophy, providing performance and service benchmarks with money-back guarantees. These industry-leading commitments are the result of the capabilities developed over years of investment in the network, products, systems and people at Spectrum.
Chris was the architect behind a new business model for video distribution – one that creates more flexible packaging choices and greater value for Spectrum customers, ensuring they don’t have to pay twice for streamed content. Beginning in 2023, he and the Charter team led a series of groundbreaking distribution agreements for traditional TV networks and streaming services with every major programmer.
Chris was named Chief Operating Officer in 2021, setting the stage for the 2022 investment initiatives, including the kickoff of its Rural Construction Initiative driven by more than $7 billion in private investment to provide gigabit broadband connectivity to over 1.7 million mostly rural homes and small businesses across the country.
He joined the Company in 2010 as Chief Financial Officer, spearheading its 2016 transactions with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks and leading all accounting, financial planning and analysis, procurement, real estate, corporate development, tax and treasury functions during a period of significant growth.
We are focused on enhancing our customers’ lives by keeping them seamlessly connected and becoming a better service operator through everything we do, every day.
– Chris Winfrey
Chris’ Early Career
Chris joined Charter from Unitymedia GmbH, Germany’s second-largest cable operator, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of the company’s cable operations, broadcasting and satellite entities. Prior to that, Chris was Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Development at Cablecom GmbH in Switzerland. He also held finance and operations roles with NTL Incorporated, in France and Communications Equity Associates in the U.S.
More About Chris
Chris serves on the Boards of the Internet & Television Association (NCTA), CableLabs, C-SPAN, National Urban League and the University of Florida Business School Advisory Council. In 2015, he received NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Young Leadership.
Born in Kentucky and raised outside Orlando, Florida, Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA from the University of Florida.
