Nan-Kirsten Forte

WORK HISTORY

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ABOUT NAN-KIRSTEN FORTE

As the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Everyday Health Group, Ziff Davis, I lead the direct-to-consumer health and wellness division of one of the largest, fastest growing and most innovative and trusted AI-forward digital healthtech media companies reaching uniquely segmented audiences across multiple platforms and monetization models by creatively combining: data-driven contextual content and media; subscription apps; self-help courses; paid virtual events; e-commerce marketplaces; ratings, rankings and reviews for doctors, hospitals, products and services across the web, app, email, and SMS. With over 25 years of pioneering the growth of iconic digital and virtual marketplaces in health, wellness, travel, beauty, and fitness in hyper competitive and rapidly evolving spaces. Career high: Steve Jobs unveiling the iPad and featuring my brainchild, the first-ever touchscreen Symptom Checker app that went on to become the most trusted household brand name for health information that, to this day, appears in books, movies and tv shows. The joke: I created \"cyberchondria.\" The truth: I was the founding female information architect behind the \"democratization of medical information.\" With even more relevance and passion to enable consumer-driven holistic health and wellness at the point-of-personalized care and wellbeing - in our hands and on our screens - so we can feel and look our best everyday. I\'m a medical school nerd who became a start up entrepreneur by creating the first daily health and medical newsrooms, streaming broadcasts and interactive tools for the public and healthcare professionals in what is still considered one of the most successful IPOs and \'dotcom\' thrivers as an Executive Officer of a billion dollar healthtech media public company from to 2011. Today, I love where I work because I am a corporate executive with Silicon Valley cred who can run an impressive P&L while delivering intrapreneurship, creative leadership, leading edge technologies and everyday learning and inspiration with one of the lowest staff attrition rates in the industry. I am a 2025 AI Leadership Skills certificate holder, certified mentor, a 40 Women to Watch over 40 honoree, a Medical Marketing & Media inaugural class 2021 Pinnacle Award Recipient, a holder of over 300 industry awards including the Society of Professional Journalists Delta Sigma Chi awards for non-deadline reporting, the American Hospital Association Award and I served 2 terms under 2 administrations (Republican and Democrat) on the Advisory Panel for Medicare Education (APME).