Meilleur Ouvrier de France

Sophie is the founder of Voila Chef, a digital platform that allows bakers and pastry professionals to learn directly from the world's greatest French pastry chefs and bakers.

Voila Chef is remarkable in its scale and quality, offering more than 140 educational online courses, over 900 technique-driven videos, and instruction from more than 45 elite chefs, including Meilleur Ouvrier de France, or the best craftsman of France, award recipients.

Sophie is herself an accomplished French pastry chef, having earned her Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle Patisserie from Ferrandi Paris, one of the world's premier culinary institutions.

Before dedicating herself fully to the culinary arts, she built a successful career in the life sciences, drawing on her MBA, her Master of Marketing Intelligence, and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees.

We started the project during two waves of COVID.

So learning from the web was an amazing option when no one was able to go on training in person.

So this started like this, but also, you know, in the baking, pastry world there is always tough issues you don't have enough staff it's difficult to be able to send someone to a training it's difficult to you yourself go to a training session so being able to train online it's amazing for them Because this was, with WallachF, the first time they were able to attend classes for Meilleur Ouvrier de France or World Champion online, with a high quality of video, with a high quality of detail.

What we wanted to do is really the training in-person session that some schools provide.