Mr. Forbes is responsible for technology development, IT "backbone" operation maintenance and expansion, new technology assessment and adoption, new product deployment, and quality leadership. Before joining IntelliCare, he served as vice president of information services at Barber Foods, where he turned IT into a strategic component of the business and led the development and release of an Internet Promotion Management System utilized by food service and retail brokers nationally; the system received the 1999 B-to-B Commerce Site of the Year award from EC4ME. Mr. Forbes also held various management positions at Unum Life Insurance, where he deployed customer management and knowledge-based underwriting systems, and National Semiconductor/Fairchild, where he implemented a global ERP system for manufacturing. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Maine in Orono and is certified in Total Quality Management (TQM). |