Forrest Andrew Jones
Chief Investment Officer at Blackwater Investment Group Inc. He has worked with Genvor since 2016, first in investor relations and later as Chief Financial Officer, and with The Oasis of Texas since 2018. He has been writing software since 1996.
Building the systems that raise the capital
Forrest Andrew Jones leads capital formation and investor relations at Blackwater Investment Group Inc., and advises its executive team on banking, treasury and investor distribution infrastructure. The work runs from preparing corporate documentation and managing the capitalisation table through to evaluating third party opportunities and competitive research across the private capital market.
Rather than buying platforms, he has built much of the operating layer himself. He wrote and open sourced a tool that reads and organises public company filing data from EDGAR, built the investor acquisition and follow up system his outreach team runs on, and wrote the training materials and call framework that team works from. He has been writing software since 1996.
His own measure of the work is whether investors come back for a later placement after working with him on an earlier one. It is a slower test than a closing, and a harder one.
Blackwater Investment Group
As Chief Investment Officer he leads capital formation and investor relations for the group, and advises the executive team on the banking, treasury and investor distribution infrastructure underneath it.
The role covers capitalisation table management, evaluation of third party investment opportunities, and competitive research across the private capital market. He also recruited and trained the firm's investor outreach team.
Blackwater Evaluation
Blackwater Evaluation performs federally mandated third party program evaluation. Its clients include the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and major research universities.
It is an unusual pairing with capital markets work, and it is the part of the business that explains how he reads an opportunity: independently, and against a written standard.
Selected Work
The problem in each case, what he did about it, and where the outcome is documented.
- GenvorAgricultural biotechnology. He made the first investor calls and led the founding capital raise, and holds the chief financial officer seat.
- Blackwater EvaluationFederally mandated third party program evaluation, for federal agencies and major research universities.
- EDGAR filing toolA tool he wrote to identify and organise public company filing data, released as open source.
Recent Writing
Published under his own name. Links open the original.
- What a Third Party Evaluator Actually Does on a Federal GrantMedium · Published: 4 September 2026
- Why a Capital Markets Guy Works in Federal Program EvaluationMedium · Published: 4 September 2026
Organisations
Where he currently holds a role. Named here only where the engagement is stated in his own approved biography.