Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset technology and data solutions for trading and portfolio management, has announced the appointment of Drew Forman as Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy. In this newly created role, Forman will lead the company’s strategic initiatives across market expansion, product innovation, and corporate development, further cementing Talos’s leadership in the rapidly evolving institutional digital assets ecosystem.
As the former Head of Cowen Digital, Forman built and launched a full-service institutional digital assets platform, offering trade execution, custody partnerships, and aggregated liquidity solutions tailored for traditional financial institutions venturing into digital assets. His extensive career in derivatives trading and portfolio management spans top financial institutions, including Cowen, Macro Risk Advisors, Nomura, J.P. Morgan, and Hudson Bay Capital, where he specialized in equity volatility strategies and portfolio optimization.
“We’re very fortunate to welcome Drew Forman to Talos,” said Anton Katz, CEO and Co-Founder of Talos. “We’ve seen significant growth in traditional institutions entering digital assets, and with that comes a tremendous opportunity for Talos to support their sophisticated workflows. Drew’s proven leadership in building and scaling businesses across traditional and digital finance makes him uniquely positioned to help chart Talos’s next phase of growth.”
In his new role, Forman will report directly to CEO Anton Katz, overseeing global business strategy, exploring strategic partnerships and acquisitions, and defining the firm’s long-term positioning across both digital and traditional asset markets. His leadership will focus on ensuring organizational alignment and maintaining Talos’s position as the trusted infrastructure layer for financial institutions worldwide.
Forman’s appointment reflects Talos’s accelerating momentum and the growing wave of institutional participation in digital assets. Over the past year, Talos has added several leading asset managers with a combined $21 trillion in assets under management (AUM) and hedge funds managing over $100 billion in AUM to its client roster. In addition, retail brokers leveraging Talos technology now enable over 100 million end users to access digital asset trading.
Talos has achieved several strategic milestones recently, including the integration of its Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) with BlackRock’s Aladdin® investment platform and the acquisition of four cutting-edge firms — Coin Metrics (data analytics), Cloudwall (risk management), Skolem (institutional DeFi technology), and D3X Systems (portfolio engineering). Together, these moves strengthen Talos’s mission to deliver a comprehensive, institutional-grade digital asset platform that supports the entire lifecycle of digital investment.
“I’ve followed Talos’s evolution with admiration, from assembling the broadest connectivity network to building out the most comprehensive execution and portfolio management system for digital assets,” said Drew Forman. “This is an inflection point not only for Talos but for the convergence of digital and traditional finance. I’m honored to join the leadership team to help shape the firm’s strategic direction and accelerate the next phase of growth.”
With this appointment, Talos reinforces its commitment to bridging traditional finance and the digital asset economy, empowering global institutions with scalable, secure, and intelligent infrastructure for the future of finance.