Biography

Edward Forst is a member of our Advisory Board. He has served as a member of the advisory board of RMG Acquisition Corp. from February 2019 through its business combination with Romeo Power in October 2020. Mr. Forst currently serves on the board of or as an advisor to several not-for-profits, a family investment office and certain start-up companies. Mr. Forst is Chairman, Partner and member of the Investment Committee at Lion Capital. From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Forst served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. and was responsible for leading the commercial real estate services firm across more than 60 countries. Prior to his employment at Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., Mr. Forst was a Management Committee Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he served as the Co-CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and before that as the Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President of the firm. Mr. Forst also served as the Chairman of Goldman’s Global Debt Underwriting Committee for seven years. Prior to his tenure at Goldman, Mr. Forst was a Managing Director at Bankers Trust for more than 12 years, where he held several roles including Head of U.S. Loan Sales and Trading. During his career, Mr. Forst was also the Executive Vice President and Principal Operating Officer of Harvard University, as well as Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Troubled Asset Relief Program during the financial crisis. Mr. Forst sits on the boards of The Feinstein Institute of Northwell Health and the Yale School of Management. Mr. Forst has also served on the board of the Harvard Management Company, as Treasurer of Carnegie Hall, and as the Chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Mr. Forst earned his B.A. in economics, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1982, and a Master in Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.