John Zhao

At Bloomberg, John built and architectured from the ground up, the core ticketing and communication system that powers all business units within the firm. Built the business model and grew the development team to 12. Integrated NLP, ticket distribution technology, and built the product out on a JS/C++/SQL stack within the Bloomberg Terminal. He was soon thereafter promoted to lead several development teams within the Internal Technology Engineering department. Responsible for the Marketing team, whose portfolio included an e-mail targeting and campaign system, the Bloomberg Terminal I-Panel (advertisement) framework, and other event management related systems. John also ran the hiring committee for the Internal Technology Engineering department, which under his leadership filled the most headcount out of any previous years. John brings a unique balance of technology skills and leadership/team-building skills. Under his leadership, his group saw attrition fall to the lowest in years. He is a born leader and gifted technologist.