Shawn Edwards

As Bloomberg’s Chief Technology Officer, I am responsible for setting the company’s technology direction and for developing innovative new products. I lead a team of brilliant researchers, technologists and product managers in diverse domains who take concepts from research, to prototyping, to product development and then production scaling. My team consists of hands-on researchers who collaborate with academia and our wider Engineering department. We focus on strategic areas that are critical for the company’s growth and stability – AI Research and Products, Quantitative Financial Research, Compute and Network Architecture, Information Security, and Risk & Compliance. Together, we have led its most significant technology changes over the last 15 years. We also act as product managers of some of Bloomberg’s most advanced products. This includes: BQuant, the company’s first family of products specifically targeting quantitative investors; its suite of alternative data products, including Bloomberg Second Measure, Bloomberg Query Language (BQL), and the Terminal product. I build great teams, motivate them, and help them be successful. I serve on the board of Latino U College Access (LUCA), an amazingly effective non-profit that empowers high achieving, low-income, first-generation, Latino youth on their journey to and through college. I also serve as Chair of the Board of Visitors for Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and as a member of the Data and Society Council for Columbia’s Data Science Institute. I have two wonderful children and an awesome wife.