Adam Cumiskey, chief program producer at BBC Newsnight, will be leaving to join Bloomberg Quicktake in September.
Cumiskey has been with the network for 19 years.
He has also served as senior broadcast journalist. He was also acting deputy editor at BBC Newsnight and has held the post of senior broadcast journalist at BBC Today Program.
He was also duty editor on Radio 4’s Today Program, BBC TV News.
Cumiskey graduated from Lancaster University.