Ben Forta is Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Director of Education Initiatives.

His primary responsibility is a focus on students, both K-12 and higher-ed, with an eye towards digital and visual literacy, and the role that Adobe services and tools play in the future of communication and storytelling.

He is the author of over 40 technical books (with over 750,000 copies in print) on SQL (including the best-selling SQL book of all time), Regular Expressions, ColdFusion, Windows development, JSP, and more.

[1] Born in London, England, Forta lives in Oak Park, Michigan with his wife and their children.

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