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.

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 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.