Matthew Skaruppa has served as Chief Financial Officer for Duolingo since February 2020. He came to help the company prepare for IPO, and the company went public in July 2021. He joined with more than 15 years of finance and operations experience and prior to Duolingo was most recently a Vice President at Goldman Sachs from January 2016 to February 2020 where he focused on partnering and helping with growing technology companies. Before that, Matthew spent five years as Principal at KKR Capstone, where he partnered with CEOs, CFOs, and management teams on key value creation initiatives to drive growth and operating improvements. He also worked as a consultant at Bain & Company from 2004 to 2008 where he helped healthcare and real estate businesses with strategy and private equity firms on due diligence. He sits on the board of Lovevery, a company that helps parents develop their children through innovative and science-backed play kits. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.