Founding partner Jeff Forbes is a twenty-year veteran of political campaigns at every level.  Mr. Forbes began his involvement in politics in 1987 on then Senator Al Gore’s 1988 Presidential bid.  Since that time, he has worked with and coordinated more than nine different campaigns, ranging from municipal candidates to the US Congress as well as the White House. 

Mr. Forbes served most recently as the Democratic Staff Director for the US Senate Committee on Finance in 2003.  Before assuming this role at the Committee, he served as chief of staff to Senator Max Baucus from 1999-2002.  Beyond his knowledge of the intricacies of tax and trade, Forbes is a veteran strategist for the Democratic National Committee.  From 1993-1995 he served as Midwest Political Director.  Mr. Forbes later served the national committee as Chief of Strategy in 1999. 

A stalwart of Clinton-Gore Administration, Mr. Forbes was the New Hampshire Field Director for then Gov. Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign.  In President Clinton’s 1996 re-election bid, Forbes was Deputy Political Director and Director of Delegate Selection.  Following the campaign, Mr. Forbes went on to serve as a Special Assistant to the President and Staff Director for Legislative Affairs in 1997.  From 1998-99, Mr. Forbes served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton and was the Deputy Director of Scheduling at the White House. 

Mr. Forbes was born in Cleveland Ohio and raised in Northfield Minnesota.  Forbes is married to Linda Moore Forbes.  He earned a BA in Political Science with an Economics minor from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1987.