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WELCOME TO SOFIRI

Where Education Choices meets experts

Whether it’s a university, vocational or language course that marks the beginning of each aspiring student journey, Sofiri is trusted to help aspiring students achieve their goals.

We work with

Education experts

Influencers, agents and peers proficient in multiple languages, located in multiple countries who have undergone a rigorous vetting process to ensure they meet mandatory requirements, which guarantees that aspiring students will have a highly satisfactory counselling and application process and be more likely to achieve their plans to study.

we support

Aspiring students

Sofiri supports aspiring students to achieve their education goals, easier and faster as it combines the efficiency and accessibility of sophisticated technology, with the personal care and expertise of humans to ultimately help them achieve their plans to study, aspiring students can connect with all key influencers in the process, from education provider staff, to education agents, alumni or student ambassadors.
our software is enabling

Education providers

Our software is enabling education providers to automate their instant messaging communications by professionally managing thousands of queries a day via web or instant messaging apps by using bots, and thus qualifying, responding automatically and distributing students to the correct channels and individuals, so that counsellors or key influencers can focus on what they do the best: to offer high-quality service.

We are dreamers

We’re dreamers; we’re achievers, and we’re education believers. Our founder and many of our team were at one point a prospective student, this stage in our lives changed us significantly by giving us either the opportunity to learn a new language or to get relevant qualifications in our professional fields.

Sofiri App and IQAP

We believe that education is the most powerful tool to change the world, and we stand side by side with those who dare to pursue their dreams and achieve challenging goals wherever they want to. The Sofiri app, our software IQAP and our valuable education experts are our tools to help students education goals come true easier and quicker.

WE PROVIDE SUPPORT​

Who We are

Founded in January of 2016, and based in Australia. Sofiri connects aspiring students with professionals that will navigate them on the educational opportunities available in key countries across the globe.

We provide support from early stages (choosing the right course and education provider) to the visa application and, if required, the accommodation process and orientation.

Sofiri is the easiest way to access all the information required to make one of the most critical decisions in a person’s life. There is no need to spend time making your way to an office. Our experts are just a few clicks away.

 

Our platform IQAP is also helping education providers, destination promoters and agents to make more accessible the student qualification process by requesting, tagging and filtering potential student information to then connect students with relevant peers for communication and application management.

WHO WE ARE

Meet our team

George Hernandez
CEO & Founder
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Vladimir Tamayo
CTO
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Ingrid Jimenez
Designer
Michael Zhu
Chief Financial Officer
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Carlos Perez
Chairman
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Siggi Gudergan
Director
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Chris Green
Advisor
Carlos Dimate
Senior Developer
Leonardo Moreno
Front-end developer
Diana Baquero
UX and IT Support Specialist
Venkatalakshmi Krishnasamy
Sofiri Direct Regional Manager
Zhiqi (Krystal) Wang
Accounts Support
Ricardo Nino
Mobile Developer
Yin Mei Teo
UX and Marketing Specialist
Anderson Agudelo
Backend Support Specialist
Craig Ecclestone
Director of Enterprise
Trang Tran
Intern
Larry Gao
Intern
Akash Srivastava
Intern
Natasha McKee
National Manager, Student Expert & Partnerships