Jesse Forster

Head of Equity Market Structure & Technology Coalition Greenwich

Jesse Forster leads equity market structure research for the Market Structure and Technology team. He has almost 20 years of institutional sell-side experience with deep expertise in algorithmic trading, analytics and equity market structure. Jesse has consulted and advised both global asset managers and broker-dealers on market structure and trading-related solutions, including fragmented markets, inefficient routing, inaccessible liquidity, new order types and trading venues, regulatory pilot programs, and Reg NMS.

Before joining Coalition Greenwich, Jesse built and launched a new electronic equities platform at Berenberg Capital Markets focused on healthy venue selection and fee-agnostic order routing. Prior to that, Jesse was a senior member of the equities trading teams at EvercoreISI and Instinet, focused on global asset manager and broker-dealer clients. Jesse began his career as a management consultant with the PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Services & Technology practice, where he developed strategic analyses on operational issues such as T+1 settlement, Y2K and bank consolidation.

Jesse earned a BS in Business Administration from The State University of New York at Albany and holds Series 7, 55 and 63 licenses.