Michael Ioffe is an accomplished entrepreneur, educator, and CEO hailing from Portland, Oregon. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Arist, a global leader in text-based learning that provides training and learning entirely via messaging platforms. Before that, Ioffe's career includes various fellowships, including at Interact and Kairos, and founding TILE.org and Energy.org. He has been recognized for his work as the 2017 Global Teen Leader at We Are Family Foundation, and as a speaker at TED Conferences.

Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, Ioffe worked as a high school teacher at Portland Public Schools and in sales and business development at ReelDx. He studied finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and design at Babson College and completed a summer program at Y Combinator. Ioffe is passionate about making learning more accessible and frictionless, and is supported by all-star investors like Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures, and GFC.