Media 2024: JOSH EASTRIGHT

In 2018, Eastright was named CEO at Bloomberg Industry Group, a Bloomberg affiliate company. His career at Bloomberg had begun more than 25 years earlier, when he was a college intern. He worked for Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg Government before becoming Industry Group CEO.

Eastright received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Amherst College. Serving on the board of directors at THEARC-Building Bridges Across the River, he is also a member of the board of trustees of The Phillips Collection and an advisory committee member of the 11th Street Bridge Park.

Bloomberg Industry Group employs nearly 1,350 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.

In March, Bloomberg Industry Group named Bobby Puglia to the newly created position of chief product officer. Bloomberg Industry Group announced in April the acquisition of Dashboard Legal, a project management and collaboration tool built for the legal market.