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Steve Forbes to Address Electronic Systems Industry at CEDIA EXPO Annual Meeting Membership Luncheon (1/8/2006)

Member-only event scheduled for September 15 at CEDIA EXPO in Denver

Steve Forbes, a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1996 and 2000 and a widely respected economic prognosticator, is scheduled to give the keynote address for this yearâs CEDIA EXPO Annual Meeting Membership Luncheon. The luncheon will be held on September 15, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Steve Forbes is president and chief executive officer of Forbes and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. Since Forbes assumed his position in 1990, the company has launched a variety of new publications and businesses. They include: Forbes FYI, the irreverent lifestyle supplement; Forbes Asia; and Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Polish editions of the magazine. Forbes also publishes the Gilder Technology Report as well as a number of investment newsletters.

In 1996, Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now receiving more than 10 million unique monthly visitors, it has become a leading destination site for senior business decision-makers and investors.

The companyâs flagship publication, Forbes, is the nationâs leading business magazine, with a circulation of 900,000. Forbes combined with the companyâs seven local-language editions together reach a worldwide audience of more than five million readers.

In both 1996 and 2000, Forbes campaigned for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system, parental choice of schools, term limits and a strong national defense. Forbes is the author of Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS (Regnery, 1999).

In 1985, President Regan named 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 Polandâs 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.

Born on July 18, 1947, in Morristown, New Jersey, Forbes graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in history from Princeton in 1970. At Princeton, he was the founding editor of Business Today, which became the countryâs largest magazine published by students for students, with circulation of 200,000. The magazine continues to be published today by Princeton undergraduates.

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 served on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University for ten years.

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