WILLIAM ANDERSON
Board‑Ready Media‑Tech Innovator - CTO, Bloomberg Media - CDO, Bloomberg Connects
Scaling frontier technology for outsized returns
As Bloomberg Media’s engineering leader and the technologist who migrated Forbes’ stack to the cloud, I fuse AI, data governance, and subscription economics to unlock recurring revenue and mitigate risk. Boards should engage me to translate emerging technology into compounded enterprise value while safeguarding compliance and brand equity.
Board Seats & Advisory
Ways We Can Work Together
Enterprise-scale Data Governance. Built Bloomberg Media’s cross-platform policies that protect millions of user records and power double-digit subscription growth.
Cloud & AI Modernization at Media Icons. Led Forbes’ full data-center exit and AI-ready cloud stack.
Revenue Architect. Deep operator fluency in paywall economics and eight-figure digital-ad P&Ls; translate tech roadmaps directly into EBITDA.
Past Non-Profit Boards:
NY Coalition For The Homeless (Junior Board)
Speaking Engagements
Operator-to-Orator Credibility. Converts Bloomberg and Forbes transformation wins into cinematic stories that board chairs and product teams, and audiences all understand.
Action-Loaded Playbooks. Every talk closes with a multi-step roadmap your audience can execute the very next work-day—no fluff, just ROI.
Stage-Proven Impact. Past speaker at Google Cloud Next, Decentralized World Summit, Princeton, Parsons School of Design, Disability in Tech, and more.
Impact Highlights
Technology Leadership
At Bloomberg Media I lead platform evolution that drives double-digit growth in paid subscriptions, unlocks new ad-revenue streams, and maintains a business-wide data-governance layer that de-risks compliance and enables timely adoption of AI. My teams own the systems that keep news, subscriptions, and advertising resilient at scale, and I stay close enough to the work to connect architecture choices directly to business results. Earlier at Forbes I orchestrated the exit from legacy data centers to the cloud and rebooted its content-syndication engine, restoring scalability and multiplying partnership revenue.
Board Edge
Most of my value to boards and CEOs comes from working at the fault line between frontier technology and reputation-sensitive, regulated brands. I help directors see where risk actually sits in cloud, AI, and ad-tech stacks, how product and paywall decisions show up in EBITDA, and whether the teams shipping the roadmap are trusted, accountable, and able to adapt when assumptions break. In the room I translate between engineers, operators, and fiduciaries and give boards a clear view of upside, downside, and the practical path from strategy slide to shipped, measured, and governed.
NYC Cultural Impact
New York City is my laboratory and my muse. As a practicing visual artist and head of Bloomberg Connects product, I merge culture and code to deliver a digital-arts platform for more than 1000 institutions and visitors worldwide. I champion equitable access, mentor local founders and leaders, and work to keep Gotham’s creative engine inclusive, solvent, and globally influential for the generations of artists ahead.