Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist.
Bloomberg is one of the founders, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, software and mass media company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, a computer software system providing financial data widely used in the global financial services industry. He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers, before forming his own company in 1981 and spending the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO.
Bloomberg served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for three consecutive terms, beginning his first in 2001.
Bloomberg campaigned to change the city’s term limits law, and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an Independent on the Republican ballot line.
