Robert Forbes
Operations Manager Buyer
Bowen Island Municipality, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Forbes is an operations and sales leader with 11 years of management experience and a long track record of turning underperforming teams and product lines into sustained growth. Currently Operations Manager and Buyer at Happy Isle Cannabis, he combines strategic marketing, product launch expertise, and client-focused commercial planning to build win-win partnerships across retail and supplier networks. He has led national account strategies and compensation reforms that drove measurable uplift in sales, and he brings hands-on experience from healthcare, consumer goods, and specialty supplement markets. A community-minded board chair who is revitalizing the Bowen Island Museum & Archives, he balances commercial rigor with local stewardship. Robert also has a software engineering background and directs Pentland Edge Ltd., reflecting a rare blend of operational leadership and technical curiosity. Practical, relationship-driven, and results-oriented, he excels at aligning cross-functional teams to execute product and market strategies.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MBA (Candidate), MBA (Candidate) at Royal Roads UniversityDiploma, Diploma at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pentlandedge/aisle
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 235 commits, 188 pushes in 6 years 7 months
pentlandedge/egpx
Oct 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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