Stacy-Marie Ishmael is the editor of the BuzzFeed News App. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, she was the Vice President of Communities at the Financial Times, where she led a team responsible for growing engagement and deepening the FT’s relationship with its global audiences. Her previous roles at the FT included FT Alphaville New York bureau chief, and co-founder an editor of FT Tilt, an online-only emerging markets news service. In addition to her reporting and editing experience, Stacy-Marie has a longstanding interest in and deep knowledge of technology. She was the first product manager at Percolate Industries, a technology startup, and is a part-time visiting lecturer at the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. In 2013, she was named in Business Insider’s 30 Most Important Women Under 30 in Tech.