Author : Robert Cooke

Robert Cooke is the CEO and Founder of 3forge, bringing over two decades of experience in designing mission-critical systems for global financial institutions. Early in his career, he optimized middle-office workflows at JPMorgan and managed regulatory compliance and high frequency electronic trading teams at Bear Stearns. He later modernized post-trade processing and transaction cost analysis at Liquidnet, establishing himself at the forefront of real-time data streaming, market infrastructure, and complex event processing. At 3forge, Cooke has spearheaded the company into a global powerhouse in high-impact application development, enabling global firms like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays and Wafra to accelerate trading, risk management, and operations. Today, Cooke is at the heart of the real-time, high-volume, business-critical data streams and complex events workflows that power the institutions making financial markets move.