Biography

Mattan Griffel is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. Mattan is a two-time Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Ophelia, a company that helps people quit opioids without having to go to rehab.

Mattan teaches entrepreneurship, leadership, and technology. He has advised and worked with companies like Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, NYSE, and JPMorgan and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and MIT Technology Review. Mattan was selected as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Education.

Mattan studied Philosophy and Finance at New York University and wrote his thesis on the metaphysics of consciousness.