Matt Hershenson

Matt Hershenson is a co-founder and managing director at Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship and funding to startups making hardware devices. Hershenson also co-founded Danger, a consumer smartphone company best known for creating the T-Mobile Sidekick. At Danger, he served as SVP of Advanced Projects where he was responsible for day-to-day operations, hardware engineering, development and design. Hershenson has also held positions at Google, working on the Android team alongside Playground and Danger co-founder Andy Rubin, as well as at Philips and Apple.

Hershenson studied physics at the University of Michigan.