Ash Bennington
Ash Bennington is a Senior Host and Crypto Editor at Real Vision, where he covers finance, investing, and economics, with a particular focus on blockchain and digital assets. Prior to joining Real Vision, he ran CoinDesk's market coverage. Ash was former CNBC Reporter with a special interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency, and served as Editor in Chief of Nouriel Roubini’s macroeconomics blog, Roubini EconoMonitor with Ash Bennington. Before becoming a journalist, he was a Vice President of e-Commerce at BB&T and Assistant Vice President and Technical Expert at Credit Suisse. His work has appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, ZeroHedge, TheStreet, The Observer, and Yahoo! Finance.
Ash Bennington Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Senior Host and Crypto Editor
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Cryptocurrency Markets Lead
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Senior Editor
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Reporter
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Vice President of E-commerce
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Senior Product Manager
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Assistant Vice President and Technical Expert
Academic History
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English Literature
Ash wrote breaking news content, providing articles on business and finance topics to more than six million unique users monthly.
He identified and developed key sources within the business, finance, technology, and political sectors.
He also researched and reported on emerging technology, trends in innovation, macroeconomic and microeconomic stories, and many more.
EARLY CAREER
Ash was a Senior Editor at Roubini Global Economics, now Continuum Economics, a provider of independent macroeconomic, policy, and financial markets research.
He was Director of Strategic Technology and Innovation at MDC Partners, also serving as the firm's technology evangelist across the digital and tech spaces.
He was a Senior Product Manager at E*TRADE Financial, responsible for the development of the next-generation trading platform.
At BB&T, he managed all software development for web-based, fixed income e-commerce projects.
At Credit Suisse, he managed the development of global production control policies and procedures.