Facebook Exec Named General Partner at Benchmark Capital

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 20, 2008 - 11:10am.

Menlo Park, Calif. - Benchmark Capital, an early-stage technology venture capital firm, has named Facebook executive Matt Cohler as a general partner. Cohler, one of the first five employees hired at Facebook in 2005, currently serves as the company's vice president of product management. He will join Benchmark in the fall and maintain a relationship with Facebook, serving as special advisor to founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.