@Home Closes Equity Transaction with Comcast and Cox
Appoints Key Cable Executives to Board of Directors
Mountain View, California -- August 1, 1996 -- The At Home Corporation (@Home),
announced today that it has completed the transaction announced in June to add Comcast
Corporation and Cox Communications, Inc. ("Cox") as equity investors. The two companies
will join Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)
as investors in the company.
Following the closing of the transaction, the board unanimously approved the appointments
of Brendan Clouston, Brian L. Roberts and David M. Woodrow to the @Home's board
of directors. Clouston is Executive Vice President of TCI and President and Chief
Executive Officer of TCI Communications, Inc. (TCIC); Roberts is President of Comcast
Corporation; and Woodrow is Senior Vice President, Broadband Services for Cox.
As President and CEO of TCIC, Clouston is responsible for TCI's integrated delivery
system, including domestic analog and digital video services, satellite operations,
telephony investments and operations, and internet services. Clouston holds an undergraduate
degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Western
Ontario. He also serves on the board of directors for C-SPAN, National Cable Television
Association (NCTA) and Women in Cable.
Roberts has been the President of Comcast Corporation since 1990. Prior to becoming
president, he spent eight years in various management positions with the company.
He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also a member of the board of Turner Broadcasting Systems, and Viewers Choice.
Roberts recently completed his term as 1995-96 Chairman of the NCTA and remains
a member of the NCTA's Executive Committee. He is also a Director and Executive
Committee member of CableLabs, the cable industry's technology research and development
organization.
As Senior Vice President of Broadband Services for Cox, Woodrow is responsible for
the development and implementation of advanced broadband services, including wireless
and wireline telephony and high speed data. He has held several executive positions
in the company since joining in 1984. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in
mechanical engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from the University of
Connecticut. He is a former member of the NCTA's Customer Service Task Force, which
created the industry's customer service standards and the Telecommunications Subcommittee
of CableLabs.
" The cable backgrounds of Clouston, Roberts and Woodrow, as well as their understanding
of fast-growth, entrepreneurial companies, will bring significant direction to @Home
as we expand the rollout of our services," said Tom Jermoluk, Chairman and CEO of
@Home. "The three have a keen knowledge and interest of how the Internet is changing
the dynamics of the cable industry."
In addition to Clouston, Roberts and Woodrow, @Home's board of directors includes:
Based in Mountain View, CA, the At Home Corporation was formed in 1995. Investors in the company include Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company distributes high-speed interactive services to residences, businesses and schools using the cable industry's hybrid-fiber coaxial distribution architecture.
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