Chris Whitaker is Area Vice President of Operations for Time Warner Cable’s Raleigh/Coastal/Fayetteville Operations. She is responsible for day-to-day operations and customer care for more than 830,000 Time Warner Cable customers in the greater Triangle Area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), northern North Carolina stretching from the Triangle east to Elizabeth City, as well as Wilmington and Fayetteville. There are about 2,400 Time Warner Cable employees in the Raleigh/Coastal/Fayetteville Operations area.
Chris is a seasoned finance and operations executive and cable industry veteran. Before joining Time Warner Cable in 2009, Chris spent 15 years with Comcast Cable, most recently as Area Vice President and General Manager of Comcast of Northern Virginia. In that role, she was responsible for 1,100 Comcast employees and 300,000 customers in the Washington, DC suburbs, including Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia. Before joining Comcast, Chris served as Senior Accountant for KPMG Peat Marwick.
Chris currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and is a member of Women in Cable Television (WICT) Carolinas and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). Previously, she served on the board of the Virginia Chapter of WICT and the George Mason University Prince William Campus Advisory Board.
Chris is a graduate of George Mason University in Virginia with a BS in Accounting. She is a certified Public Accountant and completed the CTAM (Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing) Marketing Executive Management Program at Harvard University in 2006.