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 cochairs the Strategy Committee and is also a member of the Audit, Com-pensation, and Governance Committees.

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 Re-sources/Compensation Committees. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Rush University Medical Center and is a member of the Audit and Nominating and Gov-ernance Committees.

Forbes Lieberman is the former president, CEO, and board member of True Value Com-pany. 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 True Value, she led ERI, a portfolio company of a private equity firm.

Before joining True Value, Forbes Lieberman was SVP and CFO of ShopTalk, a start-up voice application software company. She had moved there from Martin-Brower Compa-ny, 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 automo-tive 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) work-ing on manufacturing, distribution, and retail Fortune 500 engagements.

Forbes Lieberman additionally serves on the executive councils 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 the NACD Chicago Chapter. She is also a member of The Chicago Network, The Economic Club of Chicago, International Women’s Forum Chicago Chapter Board of Directors, Private Directors Association, and Women in M&A Chicago Chapter Steering Commit-tee, as well as founding member of The Chicago Network’s Women on Boards Commit-tee. She is a former board member of several privately owned companies, including fami-ly-owned Tempel Steel and Kreher Steel, family-owned The HAVI Group, LEK’s Mid-west consulting practice, and the former Winning Workplaces organization, as well as a number of not-for-profit organizations. She is a past Lake Forest Graduate School com-mencement 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 govern-ance conferences and guest lectures at Kellogg School of Management Leadership clas-ses.

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