Bio

Bennett Richardson is a marketing and media executive with more than 15 years of experience across media, public affairs and marketing. Bennett is currently director of policy brand marketing at Google, where he leads the team responsible for telling Google's story to policymakers and key opinion formers in the US and around the world. Prior to joining Google, Bennett spent ten years with POLITICO most recently as president of Protocol, the influential tech publication. Before launching Protocol, Bennett was executive director of global strategic partnerships at POLITICO, where he led strategic growth efforts including POLITICO’s European expansion in Brussels and POLITICO’s creative agency POLITICO Focus during his six years with the company. Prior to POLITICO, Bennett was co-founder and CMO of Hinge, the mobile dating company recently acquired by Match Group. Before cofounding Hinge, Bennett spent nearly a decade in digital and social marketing working with major brands across tech, energy and healthcare at leading marketing & communications agencies including Edelman and GMMB. Originally from Portland, Maine, Bennett received his BA from Colgate University. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Lindsey, their two children and their dog Daisy.