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Mark J. Forbes serves as executive vice president and manager of the Real Estate Division of City National Bank. He also serves on the bank’s Executive Committee.
Mr. Forbes is responsible for providing a wide range of financial services to real estate developers in the bank’s California and Nevada markets.
He joined City National in 1992 as vice president and asset manager in its former Real Estate Special Assets Department and, the following year, was named team leader in the Real Estate Division. He was promoted to senior vice president in 1997 and appointed assistant division manager in November 2004.
Mr. Forbes began his banking career in 1980 in Union Bank’s management training program. He later served as a commercial banker with First Interstate Bank of Denver and as a real estate development project manager with The Naiman Co., also in Denver. In 1985, he joined Wells Fargo Bank, where he served as a vice president in its Real Estate Division. Two years later, he was named vice president of Jovet, Inc., a privately held real estate development company based in Beverly Hills, Calif.
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Development at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and a member and former president of the City of Hope’s Los Angeles Real Estate and Construction Industries Council. Mr. Forbes also is a former vice-chair of the Habitat for Humanity, Los Angeles chapter.
His other industry affiliations include the Building Industry Association of Southern California, International Council of Shopping Centers, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Risk Management Association and the Urban Land Institute.
A resident of Glendale, Calif., Mr. Forbes earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Denver in Denver, Colo. | 