PBS Television and CNN Roles
As a business executive and entrepreneur, Forman's career has been at the intersection of media, technology, and telecommunications. Forman served for four years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television LLP and MyPrimeTime MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company. 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. Forman is non-executive chairman of Success Television. "Great Entrepreneurs" was produced in association with WPBT WPBT in south Florida.
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.
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