An experienced leader in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, Angela Sun’s career has involved bringing together data, technology, and people to achieve ambitious and transformative objectives – from leading economic development initiatives to rebuild NYC after 9/11 to helping both start-ups and global companies innovate, scale, and manage through turbulence.
Angela Sun is a principal at Hyland Ventures, where she invests in and advises early-stage to growth companies and family offices. She also serves on the Board of Directors of The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK), Maxim Crane Works (an Apollo portfolio company), and Kero Sports.
Angela was Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Alpha Edison, an LA-based venture capital firm. She spent ten years at Bloomberg LP, most recently serving as Global Head of Strategy and Corporate Development. In this capacity, she created a platform for emerging technologies and led M&A and commercial deals across the company’s media, financial products, enterprise and data businesses. She also oversaw Bloomberg Institute, the education business serving 1,500 universities worldwide. From 2008-2014, she was Chief-of-Staff to Bloomberg’s CEO, and led corporate-wide strategic planning, new business development, growth efforts in emerging markets and Asia, and the creation of Bloomberg Enterprise, a $1BN+ new business. She worked with the company’s CEO to architect and execute Bloomberg’s largest transformation effort, taking the company from $6BN in revenues to $10BN. Angela also created the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, the first-of-its-kind social index product that has become a global standard for issuers, investors, and exchanges in benchmarking public companies across industries.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, L.P., Angela served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Bloomberg Administration, where she oversaw a citywide portfolio of economic development agencies and led urban planning and real estate projects, including the largest rezoning in the city’s history, the development of Long Island City, The Shed in Hudson Yards, and the divestiture of NYC Off Track Betting. From 2001-2005, Angela worked at McKinsey & Co., where she focused on Financial Services, Healthcare and Biotech. Prior to McKinsey, Angela was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and a Visiting Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a non-partisan international security and defense analysis think tank in Washington, D.C.
Angela graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She serves on a number of non-profit, arts, and philanthropic organizations, including as a Trustee of the Museum of Arts and Design and Second Stage Theatre. She is an Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Board, Class Chair of the John Harvard Society, and a former Director of Women’s World Banking. Angela is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum, and serves on the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights Advisory Council.