Christopher L. Winfrey

Career

1. 2022 – now
   Charter Communicationssrc
   President & CEO (director since 2023-11)
   Named CEO in December 2022
2. 2021 – 2022
   Charter Communicationssrc
   Chief Operating Officer
   CFO until 2021-10-19, then COO over all cable operations (marketing, sales, field and customer operations, Spectrum Enterprise)
3. 2010 – 2021
   Charter Communicationssrc
   Executive Vice President & CFO
   Joined 2010-11-01. Spectrum Enterprise added to his remit in 2019; residential/SMB sales and marketing and Spectrum Community Solutions in February 2021 (DEF14A-2026)
4. 2006 – 2010
   Unitymedia GmbH (German cable operator)src
   CFO & Managing Director
   March 2006 to October 2010; also managing director of several Unitymedia entities and, from April 2008, arena Sport Rechte und Marketing GmbH
5. 2002 – 2005
   Cablecom GmbHsrc
   SVP, Corporate Finance and Development
   December 2002 to December 2005

Undated in the sources

• NTL Incorporated (continental European operations); Communications Equity Associatessrc, Director of FP&A and Director of Operations Services (NTL); senior associate, private equity group (CEA)

Not located: January-February 2006, between Cablecom and Unitymedia, not described; start and end years of the pre-December-2002 NTL and Communications Equity Associates roles not stated in any source searched

Achievements

• Charter's CFO from November 2010 to October 2021, the period that took in the 2016 Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks transactions and their integrationsrc
• CEO since December 2022; Charter completed the Liberty Broadband combination and the Cox transactions under him, per the August 2026 closing 8-Ksrc
• Received NCTA's Vanguard Award for Young Leadership in 2015src
• Charter's GAAP net income was $4.56bn (FY2023), $5.08bn (FY2024) and $4.99bn (FY2025)src
• Bought 6,936 shares on the open market on 2026-04-28 at about $172 (3,468 directly, 3,468 through his spouse), about $1.19msrc

Education

• University of Florida, BS Accountingsrc
• University of Florida, MBAsrc

Background

• Family Holds Charter shares through a revocable trust and an LLC it owns, two dynasty trusts, an irrevocable trust in a family member's name, and his spouse. The 2026 proxy's related-party section names no transaction with him or his familysrc
• Boards Director of NCTA, CableLabs and C-SPAN; member of the University of Florida Business School Advisory Councilsrc
• Other Worked more than 25 years in cable, about half of it in European cable (NTL, Cablecom, Unitymedia) before Chartersrc
• Other Since the Cox closing a Cox designee, Alexander C. Taylor, is Charter's Chairman; the previous non-executive chair, Eric Zinterhofer, became lead independent director. Winfrey is not chairsrc
• Other Severance on a termination without cause or for good reason is 2.5x salary plus target bonus, 30 months of COBRA and pro-rata option vesting (full vesting around a change in control). He has a two-year non-competesrc