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Forrest A. Nabors is a veteran internet business executive, with management experience in marketing, sales, engineering, and administration. Forrest has played key management roles with Chrome Data Corporation (Chrome.com), Western Reliance Corporation and Learning.com. Forrest has also served as a board member, startup co-founder and consultant for technology companies ranging the healthcare, automotive, consumer information, education, and financial services industries. He earned a patent for an internet business process that he began developing in 1997. In 1999, Forrest Nabors joined Learning.com as Vice President for Product Development & Marketing. Learning.com is a startup internet company in the eLearning category. His responsibilities include financing, professional services, insurance and intellectual property contracts, product design and development and launch of the Company. While at Chrome Data Corporation from 1998 to 1999, Forrest was Director of Product Management and led transformation of company business to the internet. That transition enabled the company's valuation to grow from $7 million to approximately $63 million in two years. During Yorktown University's startup, Forrest was responsible for all software and hardware development issues, recruitment of Yorktown University's technical staff and outsourcing issues. Before landing in high technology business, Forrest had prepared for an academic career, and that experience has ingrained in him a strong belief in the value of an education grounded in civics and the classics. Following his interests in higher education, Forest entered the Ph.D. program in political science at a University in Oregon. His early educational background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and courswork at Claremont McKenna College. Forrest and his wife, Gena, have three young children, William Brewster, Emma Lucille and Harry. | 