Meet your instructor

Sophia Matveeva is the CEO & founder of Tech For Non-Techies, an executive education and consulting company.

Sophia has contributed to the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Guardian and Forbes on entrepreneurship and technology, and hosts the top rated Tech for Non-Techies podcast. 

She has also guest lectured at the University of Chicago, London Business School, and Oxford University. 

Sophia is a start-up mentor at the Chicago Booth Polsky Center of Entrepreneurship, and has advised leading accelerators including Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge and the Techstars x Blackstone Launchpad.

She holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, and a BSc (Hons) in Politics from Bristol. She speaks English, Russian and French.

Sophia also sits on the Advisory Board to Riviter, which uses AI to predict consumer trends for the world's biggest brands.