Brian Roberts and Amy Hood: Net Worth, Careers, and the Truth About Their Pairing

Type two famous executive names into a search box and you expect to find a deal, a partnership, or at least a meeting. With Brian Roberts and Amy Hood, there is no such story, and that is the first honest thing this article will tell you. One is the heir who has run Comcast, America’s largest cable and media company, for more than two decades. The other is the chief financial officer who has steered Microsoft’s money through its transformation from a software seller into a cloud and artificial intelligence giant. Their names appear together online for a reason, but it is not a friendship or a joint venture. It is one real company-level link from 1997, plus a comparison question that no existing page answers properly: who is richer, and by how much?

This article is the first paired piece about them that answers the money question with labeled numbers instead of dodging it. It starts with the connection truth, then gives you the comparison you actually came for, with every figure sourced and every estimate labeled as an estimate.

A note on photos before we start: the images in this article are illustrative stock photos. They are not photographs of Brian Roberts or Amy Hood, and no caption here should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Are They Connected? The Honest Answer First

No. There is no documented personal relationship, partnership, shared company, shared board seat, meeting, or joint investment between Brian Roberts and Amy Hood. They have never worked at the same company. Roberts has only ever worked at Comcast. Hood worked at Goldman Sachs, then Microsoft. Anyone who tells you they are partners, or married, or related, is inventing a story to fill a keyword.

The 1997 Link Between Brian Roberts and Amy Hood

What does exist is real, and it is the best original angle in this pairing, because neither full competitor article covers it properly. On June 9, 1997, Microsoft announced a $1 billion investment in Comcast: 24.6 million Class A shares for $500 million, plus $500 million of Series B convertible preferred stock, an 11.5 percent stake with a board presence, meant to accelerate high-speed data and video over cable. Bill Gates said at the time he would work closely with Comcast president Brian Roberts on converging televisions and personal computers. Microsoft later grew the stake to about 150 million shares, roughly 7.3 percent, and sold it entirely by December 31, 2008, for an estimated $2 billion to $3.4 billion, roughly doubled to tripled.

Timing honesty matters here, and this article will not blur it. Amy Hood joined Microsoft in December 2002, five years after the investment, so she had no part in it. Roberts was Comcast’s president in 1997. The link is institutional, between Microsoft and Comcast, not personal, between Hood and Roberts. The article must say exactly that, and must not imply the two met over it.

Who Is Brian Roberts?

Brian L. Roberts was born on June 28, 1959, in Philadelphia, into a Jewish family. His father, Ralph J. Roberts, founded Comcast in 1963 as American Cable Systems, renamed Comcast in 1969. His mother, Suzanne Fleisher, was an actress and playwright. Roberts grew up around the company, visiting Comcast offices as a child, watching negotiations as a teenager, interning in 1974, and training as a cable installer in 1975. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and joined Comcast full time the same year as a trainee in the Trenton system.

From Trenton Trainee to President

Roberts became Comcast’s president in 1990 at age 31, when the company’s revenue was $657 million. He became chief executive in November 2002, succeeding his father, who became chairman emeritus, and he has been chairman since 2004. The deals under him remade American media: the AT&T Broadband acquisition in 2002 for about $47.5 billion, which took Comcast past 21 million subscribers; the NBCUniversal majority stake in 2011 for about $13.75 billion, with full ownership in 2013; and the Sky acquisition in 2018. Before the 2026 separation, Comcast counted annual revenue of roughly $117 billion to $124 billion, about 170,000 employees, and brands including Xfinity, NBC, Telemundo, Universal, Peacock, and Sky.

The Co-CEO Era and the 2026 Split

In January 2026, Roberts became chairman and co-chief executive alongside Michael J. Cavanagh, the former JPMorgan banker who had been Comcast’s chief financial officer since 2015 and then its president. The same month, Comcast completed the spinoff of its cable networks into Versant Media Group. In June 2026, Comcast announced plans to split off NBCUniversal and Sky, with Cavanagh set to lead the new NBCUniversal company and Michael Angelakis slated as chief executive of the remaining Comcast, with Roberts staying involved in both.

The other side of the record deserves equal space, because competitors omit it. Peacock has lost about $11 billion cumulatively since launch, but it turned profitable in Q2 and Q3 2026. Comcast lost more than 1.25 million domestic video subscribers in 2025 and kept losing broadband customers to fixed wireless and fiber. The stock fell about 20 percent in 2025 and about 40 percent over five years including dividends, against an 87 percent gain for the S&P 500. At the June 10, 2026 annual meeting, the say-on-pay vote won 58.43 percent overall support but only an estimated 32.83 percent among Class A shareholders, in other words a two-to-one rejection by everyone except Roberts himself. That last detail connects to the most important number in his wealth story, which comes later in this article.

Outside the boardroom, Roberts is married to Philadelphia philanthropist Aileen Kennedy Roberts, a Barnes Foundation director. His son Tucker runs Comcast’s gaming division. Roberts himself is an All-American squash player. In February 2026, Roberts and his family donated $125 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, funding “Roberts Children’s Health,” set to open in 2028.

Comcast in Late 2026: The Split Stays on Track

Q3 2026 results, reported October 22, 2026, showed revenue of $29.3 billion (down 6.1 percent reported, up 0.5 percent pro forma), net income of $3.45 billion (up 3.5 percent), and adjusted EPS of $1.07, with a loss of 144,000 domestic residential broadband customers against 368,000 wireless line additions (10.6 million total). Peacock posted its second consecutive profitable quarter, with $261 million in adjusted EBITDA on $1.8 billion in revenue and 48 million subscribers, up 17 percent. The NBCUniversal and Sky separation remains on track for completion around mid-2027 as a tax-free spin-off, with share buybacks paused from Q3. The Versant separation was completed January 2, 2026 and the Sky Germany sale was completed May 31, 2026.

Who Is Amy Hood?

Amy E. Hood was born on August 9, 1971, and raised in Morehead, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, in a medical family: her father was a doctor and her mother a nursing instructor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University in 1994 and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She spent eight years at Goldman Sachs in investment banking and capital markets, quit with no job lined up, briefly interned with the National Park Service at Alcatraz (and quit after one day), and was twice rejected by Microsoft before being hired.

From Goldman Sachs to Microsoft’s First Female CFO

Hood joined Microsoft in December 2002 in investor relations. She worked as chief of staff for the Server and Tools business, then in strategy and business development for the Business Division, and became chief financial officer of the Microsoft Business Division in January 2010, a $24.1 billion business. On May 8, 2013, Microsoft named her company-wide chief financial officer, succeeding Peter Klein, effective immediately, making her Microsoft’s first female chief financial officer. She was appointed executive vice president in July 2013, and she still holds both roles in 2026, confirmed by Microsoft’s October 2026 proxy.

The CFO Behind the Cloud Shift

Hood’s tenure covers the deals that rebuilt Microsoft: the LinkedIn acquisition for $26 billion in 2016, GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018, and Activision Blizzard for $69 billion in 2023, plus the Office 365 subscription transition, the Azure cloud expansion, the OpenAI partnership, and tens of billions in artificial intelligence data-center spending. Microsoft’s revenue more than tripled during her tenure, reaching $281.7 billion in fiscal 2025 and $331.8 billion in fiscal 2026, up 18 percent, with a market capitalization of about $3.7 trillion in September 2026. She leads a finance organization of about 15,000 people, covering accounting and reporting, acquisitions, business development, financial planning, investor relations, tax, treasury, and internal audit. In May 2026 she gave Duke University’s commencement address and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and Forbes ranked her 16th on its 2025 list of the world’s most powerful women. She is married to Max Kleinman, whom she met at Duke.

Brian Roberts and Amy Hood: The Side-by-Side Comparison

	Brian Roberts	Amy Hood
Born	June 28, 1959, Philadelphia, USA	August 9, 1971, USA
Known for	Chairman and co-CEO of Comcast	Executive VP and CFO of Microsoft
Career start	Comcast trainee, Trenton, 1981	Goldman Sachs, investment banking
Path to the top	Founder’s son, president 1990, CEO 2002	Outsider hire, CFO 2013, first woman in the role
Income engine	Salary, bonuses, stock awards, plus decades of Comcast equity	Salary, bonuses, stock awards, plus Microsoft stock since 2002
Headline wealth figure	About $1.3 to 1.8 billion (Forbes anchored estimates, 2026)	About $192 to 420 million (tracker estimates, no authoritative figure)
Biggest documented pay fact	$35.15 million total pay in 2025	$33.7 million total pay in fiscal 2026
Current status (2026)	Comcast chairman and co-CEO; NBCUniversal/Sky split planned	Microsoft EVP and CFO; Azure and AI spending era
Defining deal	AT&T Broadband 2002; NBCUniversal 2011; Sky 2018	LinkedIn 2016; GitHub 2018; Activision Blizzard 2023
Philanthropy note	$125 million to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2026	Duke commencement honor, 2026; no headline personal giving figure

Brian Roberts Net Worth: A Billionaire on Paper

Roberts’ wealth rests on two facts that must be kept separate: how much Comcast stock he owns, and how much power that stock gives him. On the first, the recent Forbes anchored figures cluster tightly. MansionsRadar, citing Forbes, put him at $1.3 billion in 2026. BetMGM, citing Forbes’ billionaires list, put him at $1.6 billion in July 2026. Grokipedia puts him at $1.5 billion (October 2025). BBN Times, tying its figure to SEC filings for about 23.5 million Comcast shares directly held, gave a range of $1.4 billion to $1.8 billion. Older figures show the direction of travel: about $2.7 billion in May 2021, again citing Forbes, and about $1.7 billion as far back as 2015. The honest 2026 range is about $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion, lower than his 2021 peak because Comcast’s stock has slid. Note that BBN Times’ top end sits above the older range. No Forbes profile page was directly verified in this research, so this article attributes the Forbes figures as reported by others rather than verified first-hand, and every figure here is an estimate, not an audited fortune.

On the second fact, the power, Roberts is in a different league from his money. He holds only about 1 percent of Comcast’s total equity, but he holds 100 percent of the Class B supervoting stock, giving him exactly one-third, 33.3 percent, of total voting power, described in the proxy as generally non-dilutable. That is why the June 2026 say-on-pay vote could pass overall while being rejected two-to-one by ordinary shareholders: his block alone carries the vote. His documented pay is $35.15 million for 2025, up 4 percent from 2024, comprising about $2.6 million in base salary, about $23.5 million in stock awards, and about $8.58 million in bonus. His co-chief executive Cavanagh’s 2025 package was $71.76 million, up 154 percent, including a one-time $35 million performance stock grant tied to his elevation, a useful reminder that Roberts is no longer the highest-paid person at his own company.

Amy Hood Net Worth: Stock, Salary, and the Estimates That Disagree

Hood’s wealth has no authoritative figure either, but it has something Roberts’ story lacks: a documented holdings anchor that lets you test the estimates. Start with the trackers, labeled honestly. Wallmine, via a 2020-dated estimate, put her at at least $192 million. MarketRealist, citing Wallmine, put her at about $251 million around 2021, built from 60,000-plus Microsoft units worth $154.3 million plus $76.65 million in prior share sales. MoonChildrenFilms gave $300 million unsourced, and BusinessWomen gave $420 million in February 2025, also unsourced. One page’s year table claiming $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion “per Forbes” is junk and this article rejects it outright: the same page contradicts itself, misstates her role, and Forbes has no such Hood net worth listing.

Now the anchor. SEC Form 4 filings show about 555,396 Microsoft shares held after October 13, 2026 sales. A September 14, 2026 sale filing showed 533,624 shares valued at $265.9 million at $498.27 per share. A May 2026 tracker put 567,567 shares at $235.61 million at about $415 per share. Microsoft’s October 2026 proxy lists 459,226 shares, a different date and definition, likely excluding unvested awards. The count varies by source date and definition, and this article says so instead of picking one number silently. The point stands either way: her Microsoft stock alone is worth roughly $296 million to $303 million on October 2026 filings, and QuiverQuant’s filing-based figure is at least $356 million including prior sales since 2021 (559,314 Microsoft shares worth about $296.1 million plus $59.9 million in sales since 2021, per QuiverQuant’s tracker updated October 28, 2026; American Banking News’ October 13, 2026 sale report shows her holding 555,396 shares valued at about $302.9 million after that sale). The $420 million figure remains possible but unverified. Her documented pay is $29.48 million for fiscal 2025 and $33.7 million for fiscal 2026, up from $29.5 million, with a five-year series running $26.32 million in 2022, $19.90 million in 2023, $25.80 million in 2024, $29.48 million in 2025, and $33.72 million in 2026. She also sold about $24.7 million of stock in the six months to October 2026, which is normal portfolio management for an executive, not a signal of anything.

The Verdict: Who Is Richer, and by How Much?

Brian Roberts, by a wide margin. On the most-cited figures, about $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion against about $250 million to $420 million, he is roughly three to five times richer. Unlike the tie in an earlier article in this series, this one is not close, but the article must keep the caveat: both figures are estimates, Roberts’ rests on Forbes attributions plus his Comcast stake, Hood’s on tracker estimates plus documented insider holdings, and neither is an audited fortune. The structural reason is also the story: Roberts is a founder’s son with decades of accumulated Comcast equity and supervoting control, while Hood is a hired executive whose wealth is salary plus Microsoft stock accumulated since 2002.

Heir vs Outsider: Two Routes to the Top

This is the most useful contrast in the whole comparison, and no competitor page writes about it. Roberts inherited the inside track: born to the founder, raised around the company, trained in its systems from childhood, president at 31, chief executive at 43. His wealth is dynastic equity, accumulated over a lifetime inside one company, protected by a voting structure designed to keep control in the family. His risk is the company’s risk: when Comcast’s stock slides, his paper fortune slides with it, and no pay package can replace equity he already owns.

Hood took the outside route: a Kentucky and Tennessee upbringing, Duke and Harvard, eight years at Goldman Sachs, two rejections from Microsoft, then twenty-four years of climbing inside one of the world’s largest companies, from investor relations to the chief financial officer’s chair. Her wealth is professional equity, accumulated one vesting cycle at a time, with no supervoting shortcut and no family block. Her risk is different: her fortune depends on Microsoft’s share price and on staying in a job where the board can replace her. One route rewards birth and patience. The other rewards persistence and performance. Both arrived at the top of American business, but only one of them arrived a billionaire.

What Each Is Doing in 2026

Roberts’ 2026 is a year of splitting and succession. The Versant cable networks spinoff completed in January, the co-chief executive structure with Cavanagh is in place, and the planned NBCUniversal and Sky separation would leave Cavanagh leading the new NBCUniversal company and Angelakis leading the remaining Comcast, with Roberts staying involved in both. The $125 million Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gift in February, funding “Roberts Children’s Health” for a 2028 opening, is the family’s largest public donation on record. The open question is whether the split creates value or just rearranges a shrinking cable empire, and the shareholder vote in June suggests ordinary investors are losing patience.

Hood’s 2026 is a year of spending and scale. Microsoft reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $331.8 billion, up 18 percent, with operating profit of $155.237 billion, also up 18 percent, and returned $43.8 billion to shareholders in the twelve months to the fiscal 2026 proxy. The Azure cloud expansion and artificial intelligence data-center buildout dominate her capital allocation decisions, and the Activision Blizzard integration continues. Her May 2026 Duke commencement address, where she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, closed the circle on a career that began with two rejections from the company she now helps run.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Brian Roberts and Amy Hood related?

No. There is no family relationship between them. Roberts is the son of Comcast’s founder, Ralph Roberts. Hood grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee in a medical family. They share no ancestry or family tie.

Are Brian Roberts and Amy Hood married?

No. Roberts is married to Philadelphia philanthropist Aileen Kennedy Roberts. Hood is married to Max Kleinman, whom she met at Duke University. They are not married to each other.

What is the connection between Brian Roberts and Amy Hood?

There is no personal connection, no meeting, collaboration, shared project, or company. The only documented link is institutional: Microsoft invested $1 billion in Comcast in June 1997, when Roberts was Comcast’s president, five years before Hood joined Microsoft. The link is between the two companies, not between the two people.

Did Microsoft invest in Comcast?

Yes. On June 9, 1997, Microsoft announced a $1 billion investment in Comcast, an 11.5 percent stake meant to accelerate high-speed data and video over cable. Microsoft later grew the stake to about 150 million shares and sold it entirely by December 31, 2008, for an estimated $2 billion to $3.4 billion.

Who is richer, Brian Roberts or Amy Hood?

Brian Roberts, by a wide margin. On the most-cited figures, his roughly $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion against Hood’s roughly $250 million to $420 million puts him about three to five times richer. Both figures are estimates, not audited fortunes.

What is Brian Roberts’ net worth?

About $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion in 2026, based on Forbes anchored figures reported by trade press, plus his Comcast shareholding of about 23.5 million shares per SEC filings. The figure has fallen from about $2.7 billion in May 2021 as Comcast’s stock slid. It is an estimate, not an audited fact.

What is Amy Hood’s net worth?

There is no authoritative figure. Tracker estimates range from about $192 million to $420 million, and her documented Microsoft stock holdings alone are worth roughly $296 million to $303 million on October 2026 filings. The honest answer is a range, not a single number.

Is Brian Roberts still Comcast CEO in 2026?

Yes, but the title changed. Since January 2026 he has been chairman and co-chief executive, sharing the chief executive role with Michael J. Cavanagh, who had been Comcast’s president. He is no longer the sole chief executive.

Is Amy Hood still Microsoft’s CFO?

Yes. She remains executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2026, confirmed by Microsoft’s October 2026 proxy, a role she has held since May 8, 2013.

How much did Brian Roberts earn in 2025?

$35.15 million in total compensation, up 4 percent from 2024, comprising about $2.6 million in base salary, about $23.5 million in stock awards, and about $8.58 million in bonus, per Comcast’s 2026 proxy.

How much did Amy Hood earn in fiscal 2025?

$29.48 million in total compensation for fiscal 2025, rising to $33.7 million for fiscal 2026, per Microsoft’s proxy filings.

Where did Brian Roberts study?

He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, after attending Germantown Academy in Philadelphia.

Where did Amy Hood study?

She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University in 1994 and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

When did Amy Hood become Microsoft’s CFO?

On May 8, 2013, when Microsoft announced her appointment effective immediately, succeeding Peter Klein. She became Microsoft’s first female chief financial officer.

Why did Comcast create a co-CEO structure?

Comcast has not given a single public reason, but the timing points to succession planning: Cavanagh, the longtime finance chief and president, was elevated alongside Roberts in January 2026, the same month the Versant cable networks spinoff completed and months before the planned NBCUniversal and Sky separation. The structure lets Roberts stay involved while a successor takes day-to-day control.

Is the Comcast split still happening?

Yes, the NBCUniversal and Sky separation remains on track for around mid-2027 as a tax-free spin-off, per Comcast’s Q3 2026 release.

Is Peacock profitable now?

Peacock posted its second consecutive profitable quarter in Q3 2026, with $261 million in adjusted EBITDA on $1.8 billion in revenue.

What is Amy Hood’s Microsoft stock worth now?

About $296 million to $303 million in shares on October 2026 filings, and QuiverQuant’s filing-based figure is at least $356 million including prior sales since 2021.

Final Thoughts

If you came here expecting a romance, a rivalry, or a secret deal, the honest answer is quieter and more instructive: a billion dollars changed hands between two companies in 1997, and the two people whose names now sit side by side in search results never had anything to do with each other. But the comparison still teaches something worth keeping. One fortune came from being born into a company and holding on to it for forty-five years. The other came from being hired into a company and climbing it for twenty-four years. The first kind of wealth survives bad years because it is built on ownership. The second kind survives bad years only as long as the job and the share price hold up.

That distinction is the whole article in one sentence, and it is the filter to use the next time a net worth headline flashes a single confident number at you. Ask what kind of money it is. If it is founder’s equity, expect billions and wild swings. If it is an executive’s stockpile, expect tens or hundreds of millions and a paper trail of proxies and filings. Either way, the number is an estimate, and the honest pages are the ones that say so, the way this one just did.

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