Vice President and Senior Underwriting Counsel, Benchmark Title Insurance Company
Jason C. Bergman, CRE®, is Vice President and Senior Underwriting Counsel at Benchmark Title Agency, LLC in White Plains, New York. He has extensive experience in assessing and mitigating risk in complex transactions and ambiguous situations, and is recognized as an industry leader in insuring foreclosures and distressed assets.
Among his professional activities, Jason is a three-term Chair of the New York State Land Title Association’s Law Committee, Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Real Estate, Condemnation, and Trust Litigation Committee’s Title Insurance subcommittee for six years, and Co-Chair of its Mortgage and Foreclosure Subcommittee. He also sits on the Editorial Board for the CRE® publication, The Counselor Quarterly Journal, and writes regularly on compelling title, real estate law and practice subjects for multiple publications, including the New York Law Journal.
He is also a Board Member of Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business Customer Experience Program, and was a Board Member of Rutgers’ Center for Innovation Education, Professional Science Master’s Degree, Customer Experience Certificate Program.
Jason was awarded the CRE® credential by The Counselors of Real Estate, an international consortium of credentialed real estate practitioners who provide expert advice on complex real property and land-related matters. Membership is extended by invitation and includes principals of real estate, financial, legal, and accounting firms, as well as developers, economists, futurists, and leaders of Wall Street and academia.
He received a B.A. in History/Government from Muhlenberg College, and a J.D. from New York Law School.