Carl Blake

Carl Blake is the Chief Technology Officer at IANS. He is a global IT executive leader with over 20 years of experience in IT and business strategy. Previously, he worked in Central and Eastern Europe for an early stage startup, ISI Emerging Markets, which was later purchased by Euromoney Institutional Investor. In 2012, Carl was promoted to CTO and led a global team of 50 engineers across 8 countries. He is a strong proponent of open-source, AWS cloud, Agile development, and SaaS solutions. He led various product development and IT infrastructure projects including web application development, multilingual faceted search, and cloud migration. In 2021, he transitioned to CTO at IANS. Carl graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.