Matthew Stepka

Mr Stepka is Managing Director of Machina Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage, artificial intelligence-enabled companies. He is also a Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Previously, Mr Stepka was Vice President, Business Operations and Strategy at Google where he led and incubated strategic initiatives, especially mission-driven projects with high social impact, over his nine years with the company. Mr Stepka was an innovator in Artificial intelligence and is considered an industry expert. Prior to joining Google, Mr Stepka held positions including Vice President at drugstore.com, Chief Operating Officer at WorldRes (an online hotel reservation network), Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company and Systems Consultant with Price Waterhouse.