Ash
Brown

Product design leader for enterprise systems in capital markets.

Most recently led 167 designers, researchers and writers at Bloomberg L.P. 18 years building software for trading, risk and post-trade.

Currently advising early-stage fintechs and open to Head of Design roles.

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Leadership

How I lead people, how I lead design, and where I've spoken about it.

How I lead people

  • Understand the system, then work with the people.
  • It's always safe to bring me bad news.
  • Find the strength, then find the role.
  • Don't hesitate to make the call, then keep learning.
  • Assume the best, address the rest.

How I lead design

  • Taste is a shared asset, not a personal one.
  • Enterprise is not a consumer product with harder colors.
  • [Third design principle to come.]

Speaking

  • DDX 2026Talk
  • [Conference name] 2025Panel
  • President, Bloomberg Toastmasters[Years] · [X] years as a member
  • Toastmasters competitions[Competition name, level, year]
Currently

Working on

Exploring how AI agents can transform trading workflows, and how AI can help designers slow down to speed up: thinking through every step of a workflow and designing for edge cases before users find them.

Reading

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach.

How little we've explored workspaces that adapt to what we're doing: arranging around the task at hand, organising things before we ask, and letting us find files the way we actually remember them. "Show me what I was looking at late one night a few weeks ago, something about my balcony."

Open to

Coffee and conversation about all things design, from AI interfaces to urban design. Ask me about why parking pricing matters, or why every NYC neighborhood block needs a physical and digital community bulletin board.

Updated October 2026 · New York

Get in touch

Let's talk.

brown.ash@gmail.com →
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