Samantha MacRae Foerster has joined Markit as a director and equity sales specialist.

Based in New York, she will be focused on the financial data and tech firm’s equity sell side customers.

Prior to joining MacRae Foerster worked as a senior sales director and territory manager at Bloomberg Financial Markets.

She has also worked in senior business and product development roles at Credit Suisse, Sungard Global Trading, Fidessa and AQUA Securities, an affiliate company of Cantor Fitzgerald.

For two years, she also consulted in business development projects with The Security Traders Association.

“Samantha brings knowledge of the equity markets, including equity market structure, transaction cost analysis, best execution reporting, securities finance, commission management, ETF/dividend data and quantitative research signals,” said a Markit statement.