Craig Forman

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.

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 (Nasdaq: APPS) 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 such media, technology and telecom startups as Skift and Watchup. 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 (TMX: Y).

Prior, as EarthLink Inc's executive vice president and president of its Access and Audience division and chief product officer, 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 is America's sixth-largest ISP, measured by subscribers.

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