Craig Forman is a seasoned media, internet and telecommunications executive, whose experiences include senior operating roles at Time Warner, Yahoo!, EarthLink and Dow Jones.

Forman served as executive chairman at mobile location services leader WHERE Inc., which was acquired by EBay Inc. in April 2011. He currently is Executive Chairman of Appia Inc., the largest independent mobile applications marketplace, serving more than 400 million mobile users globally. He also serves on several other corporate boards.

Previously, as President, Access & Audience at EarthLink Inc., Forman was responsible for more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue and leadership of the Access, PeoplePC, Voice, and Value-added Services businesses. He also led such shared services as Operations, Information Technology and Customer Support.

Before joining EarthLink in March 2006 as executive vice president and president of EarthLink's Value Added Services group, Forman was a senior executive at Yahoo Inc., where he headed that Internet portal's Media and Information businesses. Forman served for 4 years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television and MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company.

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. Previously, as Infoseek's first editor and VP of Product Management, Forman helped build one of the pioneering search engines.

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. 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