Simone Warren was born in Singapore in 1969, the third generation of Straits-born Chinese who migrated from China to ‘Si Lat Po’, a then British colony.
Simone left Singapore for Britain in 1989 to study English and Drama at Westfield College and the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, whose illustrious alumni include Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. At university, she was President of the Creative Writing Society.
Simone has worked for global organisations including Siemens, BT, Alibaba and Microsoft, where she was a senior director running a multimillion-dollar Cloud Computing business. She lives in Cambridgeshire, UK, with her husband and two grown-up children.
Ephraim was raised in the United States. After he obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, the lure of travel and adventure trumped the pressure to settle down and put his nose to the grindstone. His wanderlust itinerary took him from Latin America to the UK and Europe, earning his way as a karate instructor, night club bouncer, pop singer, and recording artist. He has post graduate degrees from the University of Madrid and the University of Paris, where he obtained his PhD in Financial Economics Summa cum Laude. After a few years as a financial forecaster and country risk analyst, Ephraim turned to academia in France as a full professor in Finance. During his academic career, he has authored or co-authored nine bo
