Media 2025: EASTRIGHT, JOSH

In 2018, Eastright was named CEO at Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg affiliate company. His career at Bloomberg began more than 25 years earlier, when he was a college intern. Eastright received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Amherst College.

Bloomberg Industry Group employs more than 1,300 people, about 1,200 of whom work in Virginia. The Bloomberg footprint provides proprietary legal, tax, regulatory and business data and news across multiple industries through its Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax & Accounting and Bloomberg Government services.

Over the past year, Bloomberg’s law, tax and government verticals launched new AI-powered features, including a contract analysis search tool and chat-based research tools that allow users to better search and summarize legal documents.

ON INTEGRATING AI: We’re taking a two-front approach integrating generative AI into our business – into our products to help legal, tax, and government professionals work smarter, and across our operations to empower employees with better tools and insights. Thoughtful adoption ensures we deliver trusted solutions to clients while unlocking greater efficiencies across our business.

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