Mattan is an award-winning faculty member at Columbia Business School, author of Python for MBAs, and two-time Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder & President of Ophelia, which offers online treatment for opioid addiction. Mattan is also an Innovation Fellow at the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship and was selected as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Education.

Mattan advises companies on innovation and technology and has worked with companies like Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Condé Nast, American Express, NYSE, and JPMorgan. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and the MIT Technology Review.

Mattan studied Philosophy and Finance at New York University and wrote his thesis on the metaphysics of consciousness under David Chalmers and Ned Block.
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"One of the best professors I've had at CBS."
– MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School

​​"He is who I wish I was when I was his age." 
– Jay Weintraub, Founder of Grow.co​

"Mattan knows more about the tech startup scene in NYC (and in general) than anybody else I know."
– Nico Luchsinger, Founder of the Sandbox Network