Hirsch is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of business experience. He is the founder and CEO of OmegaJam and Platform Gaming Technologies (PGT). He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Prior to these endeavors, Hirsch was the President & CEO of Oragenics, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (NYSE: OGEN) that he led from technical insolvency to a market capitalization high of $100MM.
Prior to joining Oragenics, Hirsch founded and operated a boutique legal and investment banking practice with a focus on advising and financing distressed, publicly-traded, emerging technology companies. Hirsch has experience in corporate restructuring as a manager at Deloitte in San Francisco and in venture capital as an associate with the Cottonwood Group, a seed-stage venture firm in Silicon Valley.
Hirsch has earned an MBA (MSIA) from the Tepper Graduate School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, a JD from Drake University Law School, and a BA in Economics from Indiana University. He is a licensed attorney in the States of Indiana and Florida.