Farhad Forbes is co-chairman of Forbes Marshall. He has been at Forbes Marshall since 1982.

Forbes Marshall is one of India’s leading companies in the fields of steam engineering, energy conservation, utilities management, and industrial process automation and control. The company employs more than 1,500 people, most of whom are qualified professionals in mechanical engineering, instrumentation, and chemical engineering. The company has joint ventures and alliances with companies in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Japan. Customers include process industries such as the chemical, petrochemical, power, steel and other metals, textiles, food and beverages, distilleries and breweries, water, and wastewater industries serving markets in India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.

Previously, he was a member of the R&D technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, Calif.

Farhad is chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Task Force on Affirmative Action and chairs the Working Group on Integrity and Transparency in the healthcare sector. He is vice-chairman of the board of Family Business Network International. He is past chairman of CII Family Business Network India and CII Western Region. He was conferred the CII President’s Award for outstanding leadership to CII’s Western Region and for furthering the overall CII agenda.

Farhad received his BS in 1977 and an MS in electrical engineering in 1979 from Stanford University. He received an MS in management in 1991 from the Sloan Master’s Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.