March 17, 2025 - Comcast Business Tracy Pitcher, American Entrepreneurship John Dearie and Grappling Bob Kaplan

Tracy Pitcher – Senior Vice President of Central Division at Comcast Business

Tracy Pitcher is the Senior Vice President of Comcast Business for the company’s Central Division. In this role, Tracy spearheads innovation and implements strategies to enhance commercial business sales and operations across Comcast’s largest division, which spans 12 states and serves 1 million customers. She is responsible for delivering exceptional customer experiences, financial performance, and growth targets. Tracy leads a team of industry- leading professionals dedicated to providing solutions for businesses of all sizes, from solopreneurs to large corporations. Previously, Tracy served as the Senior Vice President of Comcast Business for the Northeast Division, overseeing operations in 14 states from Maine to Virginia, including the District of Columbia. Before her tenure in the Northeast Division, Tracy was the Senior Vice President of Comcast Cable’s Greater Boston Region. She managed day-to-day operations for both the residential and commercial sides of the business across all departments and every stage of the customer journey, serving more than 300 communities and 2 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Under her leadership, Comcast was repeatedly recognized by the Boston Business Journal with its prestigious “Best Places to Work” award. Tracy has also held the role of Senior Vice President of Operations for Comcast Business, where she led organizational effectiveness initiatives across the company. Prior to joining Comcast in 2009, Tracy held leadership positions at Charter Communications, AT&T Broadband, Time Warner Cable, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. Tracy earned her Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University and graduated from the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, the Harvard Business School Cable Executive Management Program, the Wharton Women’s Executive Leadership Program, and the Stanford Business School Executive Leadership Program. She has received multi-year recognition in CableFax’s “Most Powerful Women in Cable” issue and was profiled as one of six “Women Who Mean Business” in the Boston Business Journal, in addition to many other accolades and awards.





John Dearie – Founder & President of Center for American Entrepreneurship

John Dearie is the founder and President of the Center for American Entrepreneurship. He is the former Acting CEO of the Financial Services Forum, a financial and economic policy organization comprised of the chief executive officers of the largest financial institutions with operations in the United States. From 2001 to 2015, he was the Forum’s Executive Vice President for Policy, coordinating the group’s policy agenda, which included: financial supervision reform, the competitiveness of U.S. capital markets, free and fair trade, comprehensive tax reform, debt and deficit reduction, and accelerating economic growth and job creation. Prior to joining the Forum, John spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he held positions in the Banking Studies, Foreign Exchange, and Policy & Analysis areas. He was appointed an Officer of the Bank in 1996. He is the co-author of Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy (Wiley, 2013), which was called “one of the great economics books of the past few years” by the American Enterprise Institute. His writing has also appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Hill, Politico, American Banker, USA Today, and China’s Caijing Magazine.





Bob Kaplan – Author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve

Bob Kaplan is the author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve, a series of short stories that bring executive coaching to life. The book is based on his decades of experience consulting to CEOs, founders, and other senior leaders. He is founder and president of his own leadership-consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries. He invented and patented a 360 survey, the Leadership Versatility Index, a unique way of assessing leaders. He and his colleagues also take a unique approach to delivering feedback,emphasizing positive feedback as a chance to boost the leader’s confidence. His last book was Fear Your Strengths: What You’re Best Could Be Your Biggest Problem.