WILLIAM ANDERSON

Board‑Ready Media‑Tech Innovator - CTO, Bloomberg Media - CDO, Bloomberg Connects

Scaling frontier technology for outsized returns

Impact Highlights

Technology Leadership

At Bloomberg Media I led platform evolution that drove double‑digit growth in paid subscriptions, unlocked fresh ad revenue streams, and stood up a business‑wide data‑governance layer that de‑risked compliance and enabled the timely adoption of GenAI. Earlier, at Forbes I orchestrated the exit from legacy data centers to cloud and rebooted its content‑syndication engine, restoring scalability and multiplying partnership revenue.

Board Edge

My governance lens blends operator scars with strategic foresight. I’ve overseen mission pivots and have lead some of the worlds most known brands through moments of disruption. The first half of my career in consulting also gave me broad exposure to many orgs that I was able to help transform. Boards should tap me to expose blind spots in cloud risk, data governance and leveraging emerging tech (Blockchain, AI, Automation). I link technology architecture to EBITDA, compliance, and brand equity in one conversation that drives durable stakeholder confidence.

NYC Cultural Impact

New York City is my laboratory and muse. As a practicing visual artist and head of Bloomberg Connects product, I merge culture and code where we deliver a digital arts platform to 800+ institutions and visitors worldwide. I champion equitable access, mentor local founders/leaders, have led arts startups, and strive to ensure Gotham’s creative engine stays inclusive, solvent, and globally influential for generations of artists ahead.

Ways We Can Work Together

  • Leverage my strategic insights and industry expertise by inviting me to support your organization's vision, direction, and decision-making in a board or advisory role.


    Past Boards:
    NY Coalition For The Homeless (Junior Board)

  • Engage your audience with thought-provoking discussions led by me on emerging technologies, leadership, and transformative impact in the tech industry.

  • My team at Bloomberg is usually hiring for several roles. Keep an eye out on my LinkedIn and apply if you are interested.

Speaking Engagements

I explore the fusion of emerging technologies in mid-size organizations, highlighting the significance of cost, speed, and value with a unique, hands-on approach that emphasizes tailored strategies for technology and people to drive transformative impact.

  • My talk “What’s Holding Back Blockchain?” focuses on exploring the lack of infrastructure startups and the mis-directed marketing focus of Web3 and how we can fix it.

  • “The Future of Digital Art” is a talk designed to inspire. Given on the mainstage of NFT NYC ‘22 I drew parallels to the traditional art world and where NFTs can go beyond speculative trading.

  • I guest lecture at universities such as Princeton and The New School on a range of topics from early career planning advice, to avoiding burnout, to techniques for learning context.

  • At Google Cloud Next, me and a colleague filled an iMax theater for our talk about Forbes migration to GCP. How we rearchitected to a SOA, went from 1 deploy a week to 12 a day and its impacts on the company.

  • I’ve led, participated in and organized small meetups and gatherings and roundtables of all sizes, privately and for brands on topics including, compliance, data, accessibility, caching, cloud, decentralization and branding.