September 15, 2022 | Stamford, CT — Coalition Greenwich, the leading global provider of data, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, is pleased to announce the hiring of Jesse Forster as a Senior Analyst on its Market Structure & Technology team. 

In his new role, Jesse will draw on his 20-plus years overall in equity market structure and technology to lead the firm’s equity market structure research function. 

“We are excited to welcome Jesse, who will bring immediate value our clients through his deep expertise in algorithmic trading, analytics and equity market structure and extensive experience advising both global asset managers and broker-dealers on market structure and trading-related solutions,” says Dan Connell, Head of Coalition Greenwich Market Structure & Technology.

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.  

Over the course of his career, Jesse has advised a broad range of clients on issues including fragmented markets, inefficient routing, inaccessible liquidity, new order types and trading venues, regulatory pilot programs, and Reg NMS.

“I am thrilled to join Coalition Greenwich, where I will have an opportunity to have a direct positive impact by helping our clients understand and navigate changes to a rapidly evolving equity market structure,” says Jesse Forster.

To learn more about Jesse, read his new blog Tales of a Recovering Sales Trader.