Forefront Communications

MANAGING PARTNER

MARK
DOWD

Over his 20+ year career, Mark has worked with a wide swath of institutional fintech brands on projects spanning the marketing and communications spectrum. Prior to founding Forefront, Mark built REDI’s marketing platform following its spinout from Goldman Sachs. Before that, he spent nearly a decade as global head of marketing and communications for Nomura’s Instinet subsidiary, helping reposition its brand from ECN to technology-enabled agency broker. Along the way he also helped launch the firm’s Chi-X exchange businesses globally. 


In his free time Mark enjoys hiking throughout the Catskills with his wife and two kids, playing (mostly poorly) Ultimate Frisbee and noodling (entirely poorly) on the guitar.

Mark Dowd

MY WRITING / MY WORK

GET TO KNOW ME

First Job?

I picked tobacco on a farm for several years in the early ‘90s. Pretty sure they don’t allow kids to do this job anymore.

Something people would be surprised to learn about me?
I spent three years as a drummer in a polka band while in high school. We rocked all the big Polish National Homes across North-Central Connecticut.

THIS OR THAT

Dogs or Cats?
Dogs! Cats terrify me.
Plan It or Wing It?
As much as I’d like to say wing it, my type A personality never really allows it.

Yankees or Mets?

Red Sox, of course.