Andrew Clurman

Executive Chairman, The Equine Network LLC and Active Interest media

Andy Clurman is the Executive Chairman of The Equine Network LLC.  One of the world’s largest sports, information and services companies serving the equine industry with large scale events, content, and membership programs.   Clurman is also the Chairman and principal owner of Active Interest, a media company comprised of more than 30 renowned brands delivered in print, digital, television, video, podcast, events, and online education. The company’s four divisions—the Home Group, Creative Arts, Writing, Collectibles, include such well-known brands as Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, Woodsmith, Old House Journal, Garden Gate, Horticulture, Numismatic News and Old Cars Weekly among others. 

Prior to starting AIM in 2003, Clurman was Senior Vice President of Time4Media, a division of Time Warner/AOL, serving as President and Publisher of Mountain Sports Media, the world’s leading winter sports media company, which included SKI, Skiing, Freeze, Skiing Trade News Magazines, Warren Miller Films & Entertainment, and Mountain Sports Press, as well as TransWorld Publications, which included Transworld Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Motocross, Surf, BMX, and Ride Magazines.  

Clurman’s career in publishing began at The Vineyard Gazette newspaper.  He later joined Ziff Davis where he was a regional sales manager, marketing director and, finally, publisher of SKI and Skiing Magazines.  He is a graduate of Rutgers College and holds an MBA from the University of Colorado.  Andy is an adjunct professor in the University of Colorado Communications School, and serves on its advisory board of directors.  He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Independent Magazine Publishers of America, a board member of Yankee Publishing, and is a University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Mentor. Clurman lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Claire, and three children.