Matthew Cohler

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Mr. Matthew Cohler serves as Board Member at 1stdibs. He serves as a Partner at Benchmark and as a Board Observer at Greenhouse Software. He served as Board member at ResearchGate. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Environmental Defense Fund. He serves as Independent Director, Member of Audit Committee & Chair of ESG Committee at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He also served as a Board Member at Tinder, ResearchGate, Quora, Edmodo and Asana. He also served as Board Member at Popshop Live. He has several years of experience working with great entrepreneurs to build lasting consumer Internet companies, having served in senior management roles at Facebook and LinkedIn. Most recently, he served as vice president of product management at Facebook, overseeing the company's product development organizations. He joined Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first five employees hired by the company's founders and its first external executive hire, and he's been credited with helping drive Facebook's strategy, organizational growth, and product direction. Previously, he served as vice president and general manager at LinkedIn, where he was a member of the company's founding team. Before LinkedIn, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office and worked in Beijing for AsiaInfo, the telecom solutions provider that built China's Internet infrastructure, prior to the company's initial public offering. Hwas investments are 1stdibs, Asana, Baixing, Domo, Dropbox, Edmodo, Instagram, Quora, Peixe Urbano and Zendesk. He is also a special advisor at Facebook, and on the board of governors at the San Francisco Symphony. He holds a B.A. with honors and distinction from Yale University.