Dean Forbes

Dean Forbes (born 2 May 1978) is a British business executive.

Forbes is serving as chief executive officer at Forterro, a software solution company which focuses on providing ERP software across Europe, based in London, England since February 2021. Prior to his appointment, he was president responsible for people division at The Access Group, since May 2020. Between 2011 and 2016, Forbes was the CEO at the KDS, a travel and expense management software company, which was acquired by American Express in August 2016. Forbes served at Primavera Systems as vice president for 9 years, from April 2000 until January 2009.

In early ages of his life, Forbes was a football player; he played at Crystal Palace FC which separated with him at the age of 17. He started his career in the IT industry as sales manager at Motorola in 1995. He has appeared four times consecutively on the Powerlists, an annual ranking of influential Black British people in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Forbes is chairman and co-founder of Forbes Family Group, and partner at Corten Capital both British investing groups. Provided by Wikipedia