I trained as an accountant and had a successful career in finance, but I was always the accountant who could manage the tech in a business, and my roles included being the bridge between IT and management, explaining what management needed in technical terms, and explaining to management what software and systems could do. Eventually I dived completely into tech, running a software startup and a consultancy. Along the way I learned more about distributed ledgers (blockchain) and artificial intelligence, both of which made sense to me as a business woman, and became a recognised expert in their application, particularly for blockchain. When not writing serious stuff, much of what I know leaks out of my brain as near future fiction.