

In 1995, Forester formed FirstMark Communications Inc and received the first fixed wireless broadband licences for New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston. TPI was sold in a private transaction for an undisclosed sum in the mid-90s. Before being sold, the company tripled its revenue and its cash flow grew to three times the US average. She started with a 60% interest in TPI Communications Inc, a Puerto Rico based paging and cellular reselling business which was partly owned and financed by Motorola and managed by Forester. Later, she became an entrepreneur in telecommunications and she acquired a personal fortune of over a hundred million dollars in the economic boom years between 19.

From 1980-1984, she was an associate at the Simpson Thacher & Bartlett law firm.įorester has stated that her first business success came at the age of 16 when she bought US made blue jeans and brought them to sell in Israel during her vacation there and sold them for up to ten times what they had originally cost her.Īfter meeting telecommunications billionaire John Kluge while doing legal work for him as a law firm associate, she became Executive Vice President for Development at Metromedia Inc from 1984-1989. She also studied international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Raised in Oradell, New Jersey and daughter of John Kenneth Forester, president and owner of the General Aviation Company, now Meridian in Teterboro, N.J., she is a Phi Beta Kappa Magna Cum Laude graduate of Pomona College and an honors graduate of Columbia Law School. By virtue of her marriage to a knight, she is known socially as Lady de Rothschild.

The company manages investments in the British business magazine The Economist and various enterprises in India. Rothschild, a holding company she owns with her third husband, Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild family. Jin New Jersey, U.S.) is the chief executive officer of E.L.
