Mr. Forbes has carved a distinguished career in the USA and abroad as an international financier and developer, having founded and operated a number of highly successful ventures around the globe with particular emphasis in marine fisheries and analog food processing, export marketing, financial and technical consultation, agro-industrial development, and state of the art technology.

He is Chairman and CEO of Forbes Group, a company that provides global telecommunications systems using proprietary digital switching and wide band wireless digital technology. This allows voice, data, and video transmission capabilities that are a generation ahead of existing cellular phone, cable, and fiber optic networks. The creation of ForbesPort in the Comoros is the pinnacle of a life's work in a wide variety of international settings and disciplines.