Cory Bergman
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Factal. Formerly NBC News.
- Role
- Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Factal
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cory Bergman
Cory Bergman (corybe.com and @corybe) is co-founder of Factal, the breaking news and risk intelligence company trusted by the world’s largest corporations (paid) and NGOs (free). Factal helps organizations protect people, avoid disruptions, expedite disaster relief and drive automation in the face of critical events.Cory co-founded and led Breaking News, the first real-time news verification company. The team won ONA\'s top technology award for journalism (2016).Earlier at msnbc.com (now NBCNews.com), he managed the site’s first relationships and strategy with Facebook and Twitter as part of his role as director of new product development (20••••11). He helped acquire and relaunch the hyperlocal site EveryBlock.com as a neighborhood community. He also worked as director of business development (20••••09).Cory worked as an assignment editor and field producer at NBC News, both in staff and freelance roles. He was a coordinating producer at Ground Zero for several weeks in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.Cory founded the TV industry site Lost Remote back in — one of the first blogs on the web. Recognizing the emerging potential of social TV in 2010, he focused the site to exclusively cover the new space. With social TV exploding in popularity two years later, he sold Lost Remote to Mediabistro. The site is now owned by AdWeek.Along with his wife Kate, Cory co-founded Next Door Media, a network of 10 neighborhood news sites in Seattle. The network includes My Ballard, which won a 2009 Online Journalism Award for community collaboration. It also includes PhinneyWood, which won a national Society of Professional Journalists award in 2010 for deadline reporting.
Experience
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Jun 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Lead product, news, marketing and member success teams at Factal, a risk intelligence company that provides verified information to protect people and save lives. Co-founder and board member. Lead AI product development efforts across wide range of real-time and analytical data use cases. AI speaker and trainer for global security teams who rely on AI in high-risk workflows.
Education
University of the Pacific - Eberhardt School of Business
MBA, Business
1992 — 1995
Skills
- Video
- Journalism
- Mobile Marketing
- Html
- Social Networking
- Multimedia
- Social Media
- Broadcast
- Mobile Devices
- Php
- Digital Strategy
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Digital Media
- Web Content
- Television
- Web Content Writing
- Mobile Product Development
- Content Strategy
- Online Journalism
- Start-Ups
- Blogging
- Strategy
- Breaking News
- New Media
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