Experience: former president and CEO of information services provider Teranet until January 2013; president of Ingram Micro's European, Middle Eastern and African operations; president and CEO Aliant Inc. Spent the last couple of years working with private-equity investors in Europe, Australia and the U.S. to acquire an organization he would have run if a deal had concluded. Family: wife and three sons all in the creative arts field, including L.A. recording artist and actor, Matt Forbes.