Giles named senior executive editor of Bloomberg tech coverage

Bloomberg News chief content officer Heather Harris sent out the following:

I’m delighted to announce that Tom Giles will succeed Brad Stone as Senior Executive Editor for global technology. Tom is simultaneously a Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek and technology reporting veteran. Starting with BN back in 1997, Tom joined as a reporter in NY covering the foreign exchange market and later moved to London to cover the introduction of the euro and, eventually, European banks. After a move to San Francisco to cover the remnants of the telecom industry after the dot-com bust, he left to manage Businessweek.com’s tech section in 2005, only to return in 2009, when Mike bought the magazine.

Tom soon became Bloomberg’s tech team leader, ran global business in the Americas and then worked with Brad to form the global tech team as we know it today. In addition to managing the highly competitive coverage of most of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ companies, he recently spearheaded our work on the Open AI drama, which has been submitted for awards, and has helped launch a range of tech-related newsletters, podcasts and conferences. He will now liaise closely with Executive Editor Peter Elstrom, who has taken our APAC tech coverage to ever greater heights, to set the global team’s mission for the rest of the year. Last but certainly not least, Tom will continue the group’s exemplary collaboration with Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Digital as Brad reshapes the magazine. We’ll embark on a search for an executive editor to oversee tech in the Americas in the coming months.

Please join me in congratulating Tom.

Heather