Craig Forman

Craig Forman is vice president & general manager at Yahoo, working with the company’s leadership team on its social media initiatives. These include blogs and RSS as well as other services for publishers and advertisers.

Forman joined Yahoo! in February 2004 to head the company’s Information and Finance division, which encompasses Yahoo!'s Finance, News, Weather, Health, Sports, Education and Astrology businesses.

As a media executive and entrepreneur, Forman has taken his career to the intersection of media and technology. Forman came to Yahoo! after four years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television and MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company in San Francisco. 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.”

Earlier, Forman served as an 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 web sites, 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. 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, Craig helped develop the Online Journal globally, and expanded the electronic-publishing division to over 50 countries. As Tokyo Bureau Chief of the Journal, Craig 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 nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Forman has a master’s degree in law from Yale and an undergraduate degree from Princeton. He is based in Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale, California headquarters.