Ethan McCarty is the former Global Head of Employee and Innovation Communications for Bloomberg LP. Ethan lead a team of Employee and External Communications professionals who activate, inform and enable Bloomberg's 18,000+ employees worldwide. Externally, Ethan's team tells Bloomberg's innovation story through our people, our workplaces and the technologies in our products.

Before Bloomberg, Ethan was Director of Strategic Consulting for IBM’s World Wide Marketing and Communications Labs. Prior to that, as IBM’s global leader for Social Strategy and Programs, Ethan developed enterprise standards, governance, tools, services, skills and measurement frameworks to continuously improve IBM's presence on external social media, as well as the activity of IBMers on social media.

Ethan has a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research in New York City and a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Ohio University. In 2009, Ethan participated in IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, a month-long program in which he worked in South Africa for an NGO, Businesses Against Crime. Ethan is an alumnus of the Arthur W. Page Society’s Future Leaders Experience and current member of Page Up.

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to approximately 325,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,700 news and multimedia professionals in more than 120 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs nearly 19,000 people in 192 locations around the world.