Industry Breakfast /IHA Annual Meeting during the
2010 International
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Steve Forbes
CEO, Forbes Inc.
Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Magazine
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
7:15 - 8:25 a.m.
Room S100/Grand Ballroom
Level 1, South Building
McCormick Place, Chicago
Tickets:
$25 per person or
$300 for a table of 10 with preferred seating
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Steve Forbes
CEO, Forbes Inc.
Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Magazine
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Begin your Tuesday morning with the annual Industry Breakfast featuring a celebrity speaker from the world of current events. In addition to the guest speaker, Robert Trudeau, chairman of IHA’s board of directors, will briefly outline the Association’s accomplishments for the past year and its objectives for the future.
Speaker Background Information:
- Chairman and CEO of Forbes Media
- Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine
- Republican Candidate for President, 1996 and 2000
Steve Forbes is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes
Media. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine.
Under Mr. Forbes’ leadership, the company has launched a
variety of new publications and businesses. They include:
ForbesLife, the dedicated lifestyle magazine; ForbesWoman,
providing Forbes' community of executive women with luxury
lifestyle content that they value and respect, in print and online;
Forbes Asia; and Forbes licensee editions published in China,
Croatia, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia and
Turkey. The company also publishes a number of investment newsletters. Another division of the
company is Forbes Investors Advisory Institute.
In 1996 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now receiving more than 18
million unique monthly visitors, it has become a leading destination site for senior business decisionmakers
and investors. Other Forbes Web sites are: Investopedia.com; RealClearPolitics.com;
RealClearMarkets.com; RealClearSports.com; and the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network.
Together with Forbes.com, these sites reach nearly 40 million business decision-makers each month.
The company’s flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation’s leading business magazine, with a circulation of
more than 900,000. Forbes combined with Forbes Asia and the company's ten licensee editions together
reach a worldwide audience of more than 5.5 million readers.
Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of “Fact and Comment.” A widely
respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl
Award four times. The prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose
economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.
In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the
Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for
working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.
Mr. Forbes continues to energetically promote this agenda.
Mr. Forbes is the author of Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the
Ancient World and Today . . . and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown
Business, June 2009). He also wrote: Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS (Regnery,
2005); and A New Birth of Freedom (Regnery, 1999), a book of bold ideas for the new millennium.
In 1985, President Reagan named Mr. Forbes Chairman of the bi-partisan Board for International
Broadcasting (BIB). In this position, he oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
Broadcasting behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were praised by Poland's Lech
Walesa as being critical to the struggle against communism. Mr. Forbes was reappointed to his post by
President George H. W. Bush and served until 1993.
Steve Forbes was born on July 18, 1947, in Morristown, New Jersey. He graduated cum laude in 1966 from
Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in history from Princeton in 1970.
Mr. Forbes serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation
and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the Board of Visitors for the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine
University. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University for ten years.
