Craig Forman

Craig Forman in San Francisco

Craig Forman (born 1961, in New York City) is a media, technology and telecommunications executive and former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent and bureau chief.

Career and Sale of WHERE Inc. to Ebay Inc.

Forman was Executive Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of WHERE Inc., a leading location-based mobile commerce company that was acquired by EBay Inc. in April 2011. Forman joined the WHERE board in 2009. He currently is an investor and board member at social-television technology company Coincident TV and several other high-tech startups.

Senior Operating Roles at Yahoo! Inc. and EarthLink Inc.

Prior, as EarthLink Inc.'s executive vice president and president of its Access and Audience division and chief product officer,^[1] Forman drove more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue with responsibility for the internet service provider's Access, PeoplePC, Voice, and Value-added Services businesses. He also led such shared services as Operations, Information Technology and Customer Support. Earthlink Inc. is America's sixth-largest ISP, measured by subscribers.

Forman joined EarthLink in March 2006 from Yahoo! Inc., where he headed its Media and Information division from 2004.^[2] Forman's responsibilities included most of the internet portal's leading properties including Yahoo's News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, as well as its Health, Weather, Education, Kids, and Astrology businesses.

PBS Television and CNN Roles

As a business executive and entrepreneur, Forman's career has been at the intersection of media, technology, and telecommunications. Forman served for four years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television LLP and MyPrimeTime MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company. Forman and his team produced two business and lifestyle PBS television series, "Great Entrepreneurs" and "Great Leaders," as well as broadband programming and an award-winning Internet site targeted at 35-54 year-old baby boomers. Forman is non-executive chairman of Success Television. "Great Entrepreneurs" was produced in association with WPBT WPBT in south Florida.

Earlier, Forman served as a senior operating executive at Time Warner's CNN Group and Time Inc. divisions, and at The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones. He also was a member of the management team that took early search-engine Infoseek public. As VP at CNN Financial News, Forman led the team that made CNNfn.com one of the leading financial websites, and one of the first news sites to turn profitable. As VP-Worldwide Development at Time Inc. New Media, Forman managed the Internet businesses of Fortune and Money magazines while also serving as CEO of Thrive, a healthy-living joint venture with AOL.^[3] He also played an influential role in helping Time Warner develop a viable independent internet strategy before its troubled combination with AOL in 2000.^[4] Previously, as Infoseek's first editor and VP of Product Management, Forman helped build one of the pioneering search engines.

Early Career at The Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer Nomination

For 13 years prior to his joining Infoseek, Forman served as a general manager, editor, bureau chief, and foreign correspondent at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. As director of DJ's Business Information Services International unit, Forman helped develop the Online Journal globally, and expanded the electronic-publishing division to over 50 countries. As Tokyo Bureau Chief of the Journal, Forman diversified the output of the bureau into broadcast as well as print. While based in London as the Journal's Deputy Bureau Chief, Forman was a member of the 1991 Persian Gulf War reporting team that was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize [1].

Education

Forman has a master's degree in law from Yale Law School and an undergraduate degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

References

1. ^ http://www.earthlink.net/about/leaders/forman.faces EarthLink: Our Leadership Team
2. ^ http://mediacenter.org/content/6080.cfm The Media Center at the American Press Institute Featured Discussion Leaders
3. ^ http://www.ssrc.hku.hk/sym/97/forman.html Third Hong Kong Web Symposium
4. ^ http://www.namebase.org/sources/gV.html Motavalli, John. Bamboozled at the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internet. New York: Viking, 2002. 334 pages.

External links

• Innovation and New Media Speaker

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