Marcien Jenckes is the President, Advertising for

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Early life and education

Marcien Jenckes was born in

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. As a child he also lived in

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. Jenckes holds an

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from the

University of Virginia Darden School of Business The Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (branded as the Darden School of Business) is the graduate business school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The school offers ...

and a BA in Economics and

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from

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Career

Jenckes began his career at the

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. Afterwards he worked at

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in Washington, DC in the Media & Technology practice. In 2001, he joined

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as Senior Vice President, Messaging Communities and worked with the

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and

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Brands and launched its advertising-financed consumer portal www.aol.com. Then he was the president of the Media and Content divisions of Grab Networks and before that he was the Chief Executive Officer for Voxant, Inc, a privately held new media company based in

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. Voxant and Anystream merged to form Grab Networks. In 2010 he joined Comcast. At Comcast, Jenckes was EVP, Consumer Services at Comcast Cable, where he oversaw the company’s video, Internet, voice and xfinity home businesses. In 2017, Jenckes overtook Comcast’s ad-technology division as part of an operational restructuring that followed the company’s wave of acquisitions. In 2018 Jenckes was promoted to president, advertising at Comcast Cable, where he is responsible for all of the company’s advertising assets and operations, including Comcast Spotlight.

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Voxant gets a new CEO

Comcast Promotes Marcien Jenckes to President, Advertising
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