TradeTech Europe 2025

13 - 15 May, 2025

Palais des Congrès de Paris

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.

Day 1 | 14th May

3:10 PM Next Generation Desktop Interview: Building seamless workflows: How can you connect disparate data sources and systems to build a consolidated view and unified workflow?

  • How can you consolidate multiple disparate sources of data into your execution platform?
  • What is the latest technology that is facilitating the integration of data sources?
  • Which vendors are forging partnerships to improve interoperability across the investment management industry?
  • How can integrated data and systems improve communication between PM’s and traders, and enable the desk to communicate real-time insights on liquidity and market dynamics?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Jesse.

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