[8] Hershman serves on various boards of directors and, in 2021, became the CEO of real estate development company Soloviev Group.
[2] Born about 1945 to a family who operated a real estate business, he entered the military during the Vietnam War, leaving his home town on Long Island, New York.
[9] In early 1973, he was appointed to the Commission staff as its chief investigator for the United States Senate Watergate Committee, led by Sam Ervin.
[9] Following the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, in 1975, he became chief investigator at the Federal Election Commission.
[5] Hershman next served as deputy auditor general of the Foreign Assistance Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), conducting international investigations and audits of overseas projects that were funded by US interests,[12] while helming worldwide security for all foreign aid missions.
[2] He is spearheading the developers bid to erect a casino in Midtown Manhattan, among other projects, and serves on the advisory board of the Soloviev Foundation.
[18] Hershman joined Peter Eiger, formerly of World Bank, in co-founding Transparency International (TI), in 1993, as a director of its board.
[28][8] Hershman has been a corruption advisor to Interpol,[23] and a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce Economic and Security Working Group.