Craig Forman

Forman has served on a variety of public and private company boards. He is executive chairman at mobile app advertising network Appia Inc., and an investor and board member at several other high-tech startups in telecom, technology and media. Appia was acquired in early 2015 by Austin, TX-based Digital Turbine in a transaction valued at $100 million. Along with colleagues Gordon Crovitz and Jim Friedlich he co-founded and is a general partner at NextNews Ventures, an early-stage private investment fund, which invests in media, technology and telecom startups. Forman was Executive Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Where.com Inc., a leading location-based mobile commerce company that was acquired by EBay Inc. in April 2011. Forman joined the WHERE board in 2009 and remains on the board of directors for McClatchy as well as Montreal-based local advertising leader Yellow Pages Limited.

Forman joined EarthLink in March 2006 from Yahoo! Inc., where he headed its Media and Information division from 2004. Forman's responsibilities included most of the internet portal's leading properties including Yahoo! News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, as well as its Health, Weather, Education, Kids, and other news and information businesses. Forman led a technology-driven content strategy that kept these properties as No. 1 in their categories despite external challenges from such competitors as Google, Microsoft and major media companies.

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. He also played an influential role in helping Time Warner develop a viable independent internet strategy before its troubled combination with AOL in 2000. Previously, as Infoseek's first editor and VP of Product Management, Forman helped build one of the pioneering search engines.

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.

Craig Forman (born 1961, in New York City) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of McClatchy, operator of 30 media companies in 29 U.S. markets in 14 states. Forman is a private investor and entrepreneur, a former media, technology and telecommunications executive and former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent and bureau chief.