Pamela Forbes Lieberman serves on the Board of Directors of Standard Motor Products Inc. (NYSE: SMP), a manufacturer and distributor of automotive aftermarket parts and solutions. She chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee, and Strategy Committee. Forbes Lieberman serves on the Board of Directors of John B. Sanfilippo & Son (NASDAQ: JBSS), a processor, packager, marketer and distributor of nut and dried fruit products and snack bars. She chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the compensation and Human Resources Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee. Forbes Lieberman serves on the Board of Directors of Diamond Blade Warehouse, a private equity owned direct seller of diamond cutting tool products for a variety of applications. Additionally, Forbes Lieberman serves on the Board of Directors of the Rush University Medical Center. She is Vice Chair of the Rush System Audit Committee and serves on its Nominating and Governance Committee.

Until the November 2017 sale of VWR Corp. (NASDAQ: VWR), Forbes Lieberman served on the Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She was also chairman of the Board of Directors of AM Castle & Co. (NYSE: CAS), as well as chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Governance and Human Resources and Compensation Committees. Forbes Lieberman is the former president, CEO, and board member of TruServ Company (now known as True Value Company). She joined the company as CFO, assumed the additional responsibilities of COO, and then was promoted to CEO and appointed to the Board of Directors. Subsequent to leading TruServ, she led ERI, a portfolio company of a private equity firm. Before joining TruServ, Forbes Lieberman was SVP and CFO of ShopTalk, a start-up voice application software company. She had moved there from Martin-Brower Company, where she served as SVP and CFO. From 1993 to 1998, Forbes Lieberman was vice president and CFO of Fel-Pro Inc., an internationally renowned family-owned automotive parts and chemicals company. She also spent four years as Vice President of Finance acquiring and integrating companies for Bunzl Building Supply, a subsidiary of publicly held UK-based Bunzl plc, now part of the RMC Group. Prior to that, she was a financial executive with Kraft Foods. She began her career at Price Waterhouse (now PwC) working on manufacturing, distribution, and retail Fortune 500 engagements.

Forbes Lieberman additionally serves as the executive council for Granite Creek Private Equity; Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity, and Compliance Advisory Board; and on the NACD Chicago Chapter Board. She is also a member of The Chicago Network and a former Chair, The Economic Club of Chicago, International Women’s Forum and a former Chicago Chapter Board member, as well as founding member of The Chicago Network’s Women on Boards Committee and former member of Women in M&A; Chicago Chapter Steering Committee. She is a former board member of several privately owned companies, including family-owned Tempel Steel and Kreher Steel, family-owned The HAVI Group, LEK’s Midwest consulting practice advisory council, and the former Winning Workplaces organization, as well as a number of not-for-profit organizations. She is a past Lake Forest Graduate School commencement speaker and recipient of the school’s distinguished Executive of the Year award in recognition of business leadership. She speaks and serves on panels at governance conferences and has guest lectured at Kellogg School of Management Leadership classes. 

Forbes Lieberman holds an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, Champaign. She is a Certified Public Accountant.