Marc Forest

As President of Give to Live Health, Marc provides strategic vision, deep passion and extreme focus on customer service in driving the organization forward.

Give to Live Health’s mission is personal for Marc, who received a life-saving kidney transplant from an altruistic living donor in 2020. After forging a strong connection with his donor, Glenn Pfeiffer, Marc created the Forest-Pfeiffer Kidney Match Foundation. The non-profit foundation, formed in partnership with Northwell Health, assists kidney transplant candidates with leveraging their communities to identify potential living donors. Give to Live Health takes that formula one step further and makes a profound difference for transplant center team members, potential living donors and transplant candidates. Marc is passionate about applying Give to Live Health's successful New York-based model to transplant centers nationwide.

Marc earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University. Prior to his involvement in the living kidney donor space, Marc, a multi-Emmy Award winner, made his mark in the sports television industry. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Programming & Development at Madison Square Garden Network. 

“While I was very fortunate to be surrounded by family and friends who personally spearheaded an incredible effort searching for my living donor, most people don’t have those same social resources. The biggest impediment to successful living kidney transplants is just finding donors. Enter Give to Live Health. We are passionate about providing best-in-class customer service to transplant centers and their patients with the ultimate goal of saving more lives through living kidney donation,” Marc said.