Sophia Matveeva

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

Tech for Non-Techies teaches non-technical professionals how to Speak Tech and succeed in the Digital Age through corporate & individual training programs.

As a non-technical founder, Sophia has co-created apps and algorithms that have been used by thousands, won App of the Day by Mashable, and were featured by Inc, the BBC and more.

She has also spoken at the University of Chicago, London Business School, and Oxford University, and led the Blackstone x Techstars accelerator at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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 Microsoft x London College of Fashion incubator.

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 Board of University of Chicago’s Alumni in the UK.

Specialties: brand management, business correspondence, business development, conflict management, consulting, crisis management, economics, english, equities, event management, finance, french, imaging, investor relations, languages, management, marketing, meeting facilitation, mentoring, negotiation, networking, page, presentation skills, press releases, recruiting, research, russian, sales, spanish, strategic,