Sofia Johan is Associate Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Visiting Professor at InnoLab, University of Vaasa, Finland. She is co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and associate editor of the British Journal of Management, the International Journal of Finance and Economics, and the British Accounting Review. She is on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, Emerging Markets Review, and Finance Research Letters, among others. Her research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, alternative investments (hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, real estate investment trusts, and IPOs) and alternative finance (crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, and cryptocurrencies).