Timothy C. Forbes is a member of the Forbes publishing family and the son of Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes.-Life and career:...

. The family owns the Forbes

Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

 magazine chain. Tim Forbes attended St. Mark's School

St. Mark's School (Massachusetts)

St. Mark’s School is a coeducational, Episcopal, preparatory school, situated on in Southborough, Massachusetts, from Boston. It was founded in 1865 as an all-boys' school by Joseph Burnett, a wealthy native of Southborough who developed and marketed the world-famous Burnett Vanilla Extract . ...

 of Southborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 in 1976.

Forbes is Chief Operating Officer of Forbes, a position he assumed in April 1996. Mr. Forbes joined the company in 1986 after negotiating the acquisition of the American Heritage division.

Prior to joining Forbes, Tim Forbes was an independent producer and screenwriter. His documentaries on historical subjects and current affairs have been broadcast nationally on PBS in the USA.