Bret Perkins, VP External and Government Affairs, Comcast Corp.

>> Bret Perkins, Vice President, External and Government Affairs, Comcast Corporation. So I'm responsible for two main things at Comcast. One is external affairs. It's our relationship with non-government organizations. The second is government affairs working with local elected officials around the country: mayors and city council folks and township managers. On the government affairs aside, my team here in Philadelphia supports a team of government affairs people around the country that work with local municipalities. We operate in over 6000 communities. And so they are, in part, the face of our company and those communities. So part of it is community investment, community relations. Part of it is a regulatory component as well as a relationship component with elected officials. On the external affairs side, it's working with non-government organizations that are interested in public policy that impacts our business. So it's a range of organizations across the political spectrum. And our business is very complicated. We do lots of things. So that means there are a lot of people who are interested in what we do. My travel schedule ebbs and flows. So over the course of a month I will try to be in Washington D.C. once a week if I can and then maybe once a month, once every other month in New York and then travel to different cities across the country just depending on need. And then on the day-to-day basis, a lot of conference calls, a lot of meetings, and I have a fair number of events that I'll go to over the course of evenings throughout the week.