Ed Forst

Ed brings over 35 years of senior leadership experience in real estate and finance. He has served as the President and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, the global real estate services firm with activities in 60 countries. Ed spent the majority of his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was elected a General Partner in 1998 and served on the firm’s Global Management Committee as Co-CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (over $900bn aum) and also as the firm’s Global EVP and Chief Administrative Officer. Ed was also selected to be Harvard University’s first EVP and Principal Operating Officer with responsibility for the non-academic affairs of the university. He is currently an Executive Partner of Solamere Capital and an Advisor to boldstart (a first check VC firm). Ed earned his MBA at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and his AB in Economics at Harvard University.