Corey Ford

Corey Ford conducts his role concurrently with his role as the founder and CEO of Matter Ventures, a company providing consultation, coaching, and instruction to media executives and entrepreneurs on innovation leadership, process, and strategy. Through Matter, he also founded the first media and journalism-focused start-up accelerator, investing in and supporting early-stage entrepreneurs and leaders at critical journalism institutions to foster a more informed, empathetic, and inclusive society. Throughout his career, Ford has worked to champion the concept of venture design, which enables organizations to build cultures, processes, and strategies to constantly understand the needs of its customers, leverage emerging technologies to prototype and test different solutions to those needs and build business models that appropriately sustain the organization to continue to deliver on its mission of solving for those needs.

Ford also continues to lead the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School, the media industry’s top executive program. Ford’s roots are in public media. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar, he began his career in documentary television production at PBS FRONTLINE and National Geographic before receiving an MBA from Stanford.