Management crew growth coincides with current onboarding of enormous asset managers representing $21 trillion in AUM
NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Talos, the premier supplier of institutional digital property know-how and knowledge for buying and selling and portfolio administration, introduced the appointment of Drew Forman as Senior Vice President and Head of Technique. On this newly created government position, Forman will lead firmwide initiatives spanning market growth, product innovation and company growth as Talos continues to strengthen its place on the heart of the institutional digital property ecosystem.
As Head of Cowen Digital, Forman launched a full-service, institutional digital property platform that supplied commerce execution, custody by means of companions, and aggregated liquidity options for conventional establishments getting into the market. He brings to Talos deep expertise in derivatives buying and selling, having led Cowen’s fairness derivatives desk, co-led the buying and selling desk at Macro Threat Advisors, and held senior derivatives buying and selling roles at Nomura and J.P. Morgan. Most lately, at Hudson Bay Capital, he centered on the portfolio administration and buying and selling of fairness volatility methods, additional demonstrating his analytical rigor in conventional finance.
“We’re very lucky to welcome Drew Forman to Talos,” mentioned Anton Katz, CEO and Co-Founding father of Talos. “We’ve seen vital progress in conventional establishments getting into digital property, and with that comes an amazing alternative for Talos to assist their subtle workflows. Drew’s confirmed management in constructing and scaling companies throughout conventional and digital finance makes him uniquely positioned to assist chart Talos’s subsequent section of progress.”
Forman will report on to CEO Anton Katz, overseeing enterprise technique, exploring inorganic progress and partnership alternatives, and serving to to outline the agency’s long-term positioning throughout each digital and conventional asset markets. His mandate contains driving alignment throughout the group and making certain that Talos’s platform continues to be the trusted infrastructure layer for monetary establishments.
Forman’s appointment displays Talos’s ongoing momentum and the broader wave of institutional engagement in digital property. Over the previous yr, Talos has onboarded as purchasers a number of main asset managers representing roughly $21 trillion in property below administration (AUM), in addition to hedge funds collectively managing over $100 billion in AUM. As well as, a number of retail brokers have adopted Talos’s know-how, enabling over 100 million finish customers to commerce digital property.
Latest progress milestones additionally embrace the combination of the Talos order and execution administration system (OEMS) with BlackRock’s Aladdin® funding platform, and the acquisitions of 4 best-in-class digital property corporations: knowledge supplier Coin Metrics, threat administration platform Cloudwall, institutional DeFi know-how supplier Skolem, and portfolio engineering platform D3X Methods. These strategic strikes advance Talos’s dedication to delivering an institutional-grade platform that helps the complete lifecycle of digital asset funding.
“I’ve adopted Talos’s evolution with admiration, from assembling the broadest connectivity community to constructing out probably the most complete execution and portfolio administration system for digital property,” added Forman. “That is an inflection level not just for Talos, however for the convergence of digital and conventional finance. I’m honored to hitch the management crew to assist form the agency’s strategic route and speed up the following section of progress.”
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Talos gives institutional-grade know-how and knowledge that helps the complete digital asset funding lifecycle, together with liquidity sourcing, worth discovery, buying and selling, settlement and portfolio administration. Engineered by a crew with unmatched expertise constructing institutional buying and selling, portfolio and knowledge methods, the Talos platform connects establishments to key suppliers within the digital asset ecosystem – exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokers, lenders, custodians, and extra – by means of a single interface. For added info, go to www.talos.com.
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