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Mark Forbis began his career in 1982 with Systematics (now Fidelity Information Systems) in its data center in Fayetteville Arkansas while attending the University of Arkansas. He worked in various capacities in the data center until moving to another start-up data center (BankTec) in Fayetteville. BankTec was a joint venture between the owners of First National of Fayetteville and the owners of JB Hunt Trucking Co. Forbis served as BankTec’s operations manager from 1986 until 1988. He then moved to Monett Missouri and joined Jack Henry & Associates Inc. in the CIF 36 Support Department. In 1989 he joined the SilverLake® Installation Department and worked on many of the early SilverLake customer installs. A year later he joined the Research & Development Department where he spent the next four years developing products and enhancing SilverLake. In 1994 he served a brief stint as manager of Installation Services before being asked to develop a Check Image solution for the company. From 1994 until 2003 he was manager of the Image and Item Processing division where he was responsible for development installation and support of the company’s Check and Document Image products. In 2003 he succeeded Tony Wormington as general manager of Technology Services where he has focused on the technology direction of the company’s core banking and credit union solutions as well as numerous complementary products. Forbis was named vice president and chief technology officer in 2006. Forbis resides in Monett with his wife and two sons. He enjoys traveling with his family.
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