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Scouting report · CHTR

Jessica M. Fischer

  • Chief Financial Officer, CHTR since 2021-10src

Charter CFO since October 2021; resigned, leaves 2026-10-15

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Not ranked yet

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design73revenue, ebitda, fcf, strategic, tsr, time only · 76.4% for · 0.09% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
40src
In the role
5 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Red flag 1

  • Resigned 2026-08-28, nine days after the Cox and Liberty Broadband closing, to take another opportunity. Leaves 2026-10-15 after the Q3 close. The company says there was no disagreement and no change to its outlooksrc

Watch 4

  • Received a Cox-integration grant (96,939 options and 37,652 RSUs, vesting 2028-2030) on 2026-08-20, eight days before she gave noticesrc
  • Beneficial ownership of 75,697 is almost all vested options (73,151); she held 2,546 shares outright after the January 2026 vestingsrc
  • 2023 reported pay was $28.8m, mostly a $23.7m option grant under the five-year 2023 Performance Equity Program, whose tranches vest only above stock-price hurdles starting at $507src
  • Say-on-pay got 76.4% of votes cast for and against at the 2026-04-21 meetingsrc

Career

  1. 2021 – 2026
    Charter Communicationssrc
    Chief Financial Officer
    Named CFO October 2021, succeeding Winfrey (CFO until 2021-10-19 per DEF14A-2022). Resigned 2026-08-28, effective 2026-10-15
  2. 2021 – 2021
    Charter Communicationssrc
    Executive Vice President, Finance
    Promoted 2021-02-04 from SVP, Finance and Treasurer. Added procurement, investor relations, internal audit and corporate planning
  3. 2017 – 2021
    Charter Communicationssrc
    Treasurer, then SVP, Finance and Treasurer
    The 2026 proxy says she joined as Deputy Treasurer in 2017; the 2022 proxy says Corporate Treasurer. Ran treasury and cash management, risk management and tax (WS-evp)
  4. 2016 – 2017
    EY (Ernst & Young)src
    Partner, National Tax Department
    Advised media and telecom clients on partnership tax structuring, including Charter on its 2016 Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks transactions. 2016 is the earliest dated fact; the start of her EY career is not stated

Not located: Start of her EY career and when she made partner not located; no role before 2016 is dated in any source searched

Achievements

  • Went from EY tax partner advising Charter on the 2016 TWC/Bright House deals to Charter's CFO within about five years of joining in 2017src
  • Ran Charter's capital-markets strategy and M&A as CFO, through the Cox and Liberty Broadband transactions that closed in August 2026src
  • Publicly put Cox cost synergies above $1bn, per a Fierce Network headlinesrc
  • Leaving to be founding CFO of a Blackstone-Google AI compute joint venture (reported as Crux AI; Blackstone funds committing an initial $5bn)src

Education

  • Washington University in St. Louis, BSBA Accounting and managerial economicssrc
  • Washington University in St. Louis, MS Business administration, accounting concentrationsrc

Background

  • Family No family relationship or family transaction with Charter found; the 2026 proxy's related-party section names no transaction involving hersrc
  • Other A tax specialist by training. Her EY practice was partnership structuring for media and telecom, which is the structure Charter uses with its holdings units and A/Nsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

11
  1. Filing Charter Communications DEF 14A (accession 0001140361-26-009220) · 2026-03-12
  2. Filing Charter Communications DEF 14A (accession 0001193125-22-078350) · 2022-03-17
  3. Filing Charter Communications 8-K Item 5.02, CFO resignation and interim CFO (0001140361-26-035084) · 2026-08-31
  4. Filing Charter Communications 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001091667-26-000024) · 2026-04-23
  5. Filing Charter Communications 8-K Items 2.01/5.02/5.03, completion of the Liberty Broadband and Cox transactions (0001140361-26-033909) · 2026-08-20
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1091667 (FY2025 10-K, 0001091667-26-000017) · 2026-01-30
  7. Filing Form 4, Jessica M. Fischer (reporting CIK 1888977), RSU vesting, tax withholding and annual grant of 2026-01-15/16 (0001888977-26-000003) · 2026-01-20
  8. Filing Form 4, Jessica M. Fischer, Cox-closing option and RSU grant of 2026-08-20 (0001888977-26-000005) · 2026-08-24
  9. Web search result WebSearch: 'Charter Communications Promotes Jessica Fischer To Executive Vice President, Finance' (press release, 2021-02-04) · 2026-09-24
  10. Web search result WebSearch: 'Charter CFO Jessica Fischer to join Google-Blackstone's TPU neocloud' (DCD); also Fortune 2026-09-03 and Light Reading · 2026-09-24
  11. Web search result WebSearch: 'Charter's CFO says cost synergies from Cox will exceed $1B' (Fierce Network headline) · 2026-09-24