Matt Cohler

Matt Cohler (born in 1977) is an American entrepreneur.

Cohler was born in New York City. After graduating from St. Bernard's School and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, he moved to Europe where he worked for a year as a jazz musician. He returned to the United States in 1996 to attend Yale University. In 1998 he left Yale to work in Beijing for the systems integration and OSS startup AsiaInfo, the company which built the commercial Internet infrastructure in China and subsequently became the first Chinese technology company to go public in the United States. Cohler later returned to Yale.

Cohler moved to Silicon Valley in 2001. He worked for two years in the Silicon Valley office of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, during which time he published an article in Harvard Business Review with Bill Meehan, the head of McKinsey's west coast offices, which was subsequently cited by and discussed in The Economist In 2003 Cohler left McKinsey to join LinkedIn in as part of its founding team. He stayed with the company until early 2005, when he joined Facebook as one of its founders' first five employee hires and part of the original Facebook management team together with Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, and Dustin Moskovitz. Cohler remains part of the Facebook management team and his activities have been focused on recruiting public speaking company strategy and, most recently, product management He is also active in several non-profit initiatives as a board member and advisor.

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