Josh McHugh

Josh spent 7 years at Forbes and 8 years at Wired as a writer and editor and is now the CEO of Attention Span Media and editor in chief of Attention FWD. Raised by a single mother, a gaggle of aunts, uncles and grandparents, and encouraged by an extended family of literary enthusiasts, he attended Waldorf school, boarding school and college thanks to a constellation of financial aid packages, eventually graduating from Yale with a B.A. in English. After college Josh worked for a small weekly newspaper, covering school board meetings, bake sales and a murder or two. His efforts to dunk a basketball are the subject of Dunkumentary, a documentary that screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. From 2010 to 2014, he served as president of the Commonwealth Club of California’s INFORUM board. He holds a certification in Sustainable Capitalism & ESG from Berkeley Law.