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Harry Forbes
Harry Forbes
Senior Analyst Automation
Harry leads ARC's coverage of the Smart Grid and the electric power vertical industry.

Harry covers Smart Grid, industrial networking, network/communication standards, and the electric power vertical industry.  His research topics include the Smart Grid, Smart Metering, energy storage, as well as industrial wireless, wireless sensor networks, industrial Ethernet and other emerging network technologies.

Harry has over 25 years experience in automation, power generation, energy management, modeling and simulation, advanced control, and optimization.  He has written for Control Design, Power magazine, and Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, as well as for many technical and industry conferences.  Prior to joining ARC, Harry served in a variety of marketing, sales and engineering posts for Simsci-Esscor, Invensys, and Foxboro.  He also worked as a performance and automation engineer in fossil and nuclear power generation at the Detroit Edison Company.

Harry is a graduate of Tufts University with a BS in electrical engineering and has an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.