Doctoroff named CEO of Bloomberg LP

Bloomberg LP announced Tuesday that effective Aug. 1, Daniel L. Doctoroff will become chief executive officer and president of Bloomberg and will manage all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the company.

Doctoroff will continue to report to Bloomberg chairman Peter T. Grauer. The CEO slot has been vacant since 2008.

“One of the critical elements of Bloomberg’s remarkable growth over the past 30 years has been our capacity to evolve to meet changing internal and external needs and opportunities,” said Grauer in a statement. “In addition to our very successful core businesses, the Bloomberg terminal and Bloomberg News, we have started eight new businesses just in the past few years.  Dan is perfectly suited to manage our increasingly diversified business model.”

Grauer will continue to serve as chairman, a role he has held for 10 years.  In this capacity, he will manage high-level customer, government and other external relationships and will oversee Bloomberg’s legal, compliance, security, talent development, sustainability and philanthropy functions.

“Over the past three years, the pace of change in the markets and in our organization has been extraordinary,” said Doctoroff, who currently is president, in a statement. “Bloomberg has invested aggressively to capitalize on the disruptions and opportunities that we have seen emerge.  As a result, we now have a more complex, and still uniquely interdependent, web of businesses within the company.”

Bloomberg has grown every year since its founding 30 years ago and achieved record financial performance in 2010.

Bloomberg also announced that Thomas F. Secunda has been appointed as a vice chairman of the firm.  Secunda currently manages Bloomberg’s largest business unit, financial products, and is also the leader of the company’s research and development team.  Secunda was one of the four original founders of Bloomberg LP.

Grauer and Doctoroff said “Tom Secunda has been at the forefront of Bloomberg’s remarkable rise in the past 30 years.  Other than our name founder, no one has been more responsible for our success.  He continues to be our top product strategist and the embodiment of the Bloomberg culture of hard work and innovation on behalf of our customers.”