As co-founder and CEO of Charmed Technology, an MIT Media Lab Spinoff. He is also a producer of the company's Brave New Unwired World wireless technology fashion show taking place at Internet World trade shows across the globe.

A pioneer in Internet entertainment, Lightman has produced over 50 Internet-related projects for a variety of clients including Paramount Pictures, CNN, C/Net, CKS, Jim Henson, Sony/Columbia/TriStar, Silicon Graphics, Universal Studios and New Line Cinemas. Lightman also produced the first Internet VR (VRML/Java) hybrid for movies such as Star Trek: First Contact and television shows such as Xena: Warrior Princess.

Lightman previously was a marketing manager for Reuters and for IntelliCorp, the first public artificial intelligence software company. He also worked for Paul E. Tsongas, the Democratic Senator of Massachusetts and former presidential candidate, where he handled technology industry issues on Capitol Hill.

Lightman created an accredited high school and college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which focused on teaching global business to students from 15 countries and involved three months of study travel to different countries. In addition to overseeing operations at Charmed Technology, Lightman is or has been contributing editor to Red Herring magazine, Internet World and IntellectualCapital.com. Lightman was a keynote speaker at Internet World 2000 shows in Singapore, Sydney and New Dehli. Lightman is currently writing Brave New Unwired World a book about wireless broadband for John Wiley to be published in 2001. He is a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute and sits on the boards of three non-profit space-related organizations.

In it's 20th anniversary issue Chief Executive magazine recognized Lightman as one of ten "CEO's of the Future." In addition, Animation magazine has crowned him a "cyberguru."

Lightman is 1983 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and attended graduate school at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.