Craig Forman McClatchy Company CEO Rating

McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman Bio

Mr. Craig I. Forman has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at The McClatchy Company since January 25, 2017. Mr. Forman serves as the Founding General Partner at NextNews. He served as the Chief Product Officer at EarthLink Holdings Corp. since March 2007. He was responsible for the Access, PeoplePC, Voice and Value-added Services businesses. Mr. Forman headed shared services like Operations, Information Technology and Customer Support. He has extensive management and board experience in digital advertising, digital video, mobile applications and media. Mr. Forman served as the President of Access and Audience at EarthLink Holdings Corp., since March 2007. He served as an Executive Vice President and President of Value Added Services at EarthLink Holdings Corp., since March 2006. Mr. Forman served as the Head of Internet portal's Media and Information businesses at Yahoo! Inc. (Now known as Altaba Inc.) since February 2004 and led Yahoo's News, Finance, Sports, Health, Weather, Education, Kids and Astrology businesses. He served as the Vice President of Finance and Information at Yahoo! Inc. From February 2004 to December 2005, Mr. Forman served as the Vice President and General Manager of Media and Information at Yahoo Inc. He co-founded MyPrimeTime, Inc. in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from June 1999 to February 2004. Mr. Forman served as the Chief Executive Officer at Thrive. He served as Vice President at CNNfn Interactive, where Mr. Forman was responsible for content and the P&L of CNNfn.com. He served as Vice President of CNN Financial News. Mr. Forman has held senior executive roles with Time Warner. He served as an Editor and Vice President at Worldwide Development at Time Inc.'s new media division. Before his post at Time Inc., Mr. Forman served as a Vice President of Product Management and Editor at Infoseek, Corp. He spent 13 years at Dow Jones & Co., publishers of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Forman began working for Dow Jones in 1982 as a copy editor in the Journal's New York bureau. In October 1982, he joined the team starting the Wall Street Journal Europe. Since January 1992, Mr. Forman served as a Foreign Correspondent at Wall Street Journal. He served as the Journal's London Deputy Bureau Chief at Wall Street Journal. Mr. Forman was a correspondent for the Journal's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He served as Journal's Tokyo bureau chief and since March 1995, Mr. Forman served as Editor of Dow Jones Business Information Services International. There he oversaw an electronic publishing unit that served clients in more than 40 countries. Mr. Forman is an entrepreneur, a senior media, technology and telecommunications executive and a leader whose two-decade career has spanned media and high technology. He serves as an Executive Chairman at Appia, Inc. since 2011. Mr. Forman served as an Executive Chairman of WHERE, Inc. since March 2011. Mr. Forman has been an Independent Director of The McClatchy Company since July 23, 2013. Mr. Forman has been an Independent Director of Yellow Pages Limited since January 26, 2012. He served as a Director of Digital Turbine, Inc. since March 06, 2015 until January 27, 2017. He served as Director of YuMe, Inc. since July 3, 2015 until May 27, 2016. He served as Director of PayPal Media Network since October 2009. Since March 1995, Mr. Forman served as a Director of Dow Jones Business Information Services International. He is author of the book, ???Be Luckier in Life.??? Mr. Forman holds a Master's degree in law from Yale Law School and an undergraduate degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs. Mr. Forman has completed the Directors??? Consortium executive education program at Stanford University and the Program Making Corporate Boards More Effective at Harvard Business School.

McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman At a Glance

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