Martinez to oversee the area Xfinity Stores, along with Xfinity sales in local big box stores
July 30, 2020 – Comcast announced today that Lisette Martinez has been named Vice President of Retail Sales for Comcast’s Greater Chicago Region, which includes Illinois, Northwest Indiana and Southwest Michigan.
In her new role, Martinez will oversee the company’s 45 Xfinity Stores throughout the region, along with several hundred Xfinity retail sites within area big box stores and freestanding retail kiosks.
Martinez began her career in the consumer electronics industry and rose through the ranks at large big-box retailers. Since joining Comcast in 2013, Martinez has served in an array of progressive roles, the latest being Senior Director of Retail. In that role, she and her team led the company’s retail transformation in the region, developing and maturing some of the company’s first local Xfinity retail stores and contributing to the company’s national retail operations and processes.
Martinez, who is working toward her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Leadership from Ashford University, is on the board of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) and is a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT). A native of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, Martinez and her family live in Chicago’s west suburbs.
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