Sunday, April 22, 2012

Brian Forth, CEO of SiteCrafting (Compiled from barrowed notes and online research)


Brian Forth is the CEO of SiteCrafting a company that is involved in website design and web application development.  He developed a website for KBTC to help give them a new look and focused on developing a healthy website that kids can navigate through. He was awarded Small Business Leader of the Year by the UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business for excellence in leadership.
In high school he played basketball and during these years he had high hopes of being first baseman for the LA Dodgers.  He has been developing websites since 1995.  He went to Maramount college on a scholarship and won the college world series.  While attending Maramount he had asperations of being a film maker.  Brian graduated from Gonzaga University.  At this time he switched to theology and philosophy and he decided to teach at St Charles elementary school’s 5th grade.  After this he worked as an intern at Disney  during his first year attending Gonzaga.
Brian worked on the development of one of the first widely distributed Learning Management Systems for Knowledge Universe during the late nineties for which the project was nominated the Codie Award for Best Online Product in 2000.  He founded SiteCrafting while Technology Coordinator at St. Charles Borromeo School in Tacoma where he made only $17,500.  SiteCrafting has chosen Spokane as its new expansion site.  In 2010 they expanded into Seattle.  The company opened more offices to meet employee’s needs.  His company was named one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies in 2011.
His secrets to success are: the risk, invest yourself in the current project, trust your team, deliver more, make and keep bigger promises and leverage your experiences and connections.

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