THE AUTHOR

    Sa May 1970 and attended tigious London Scical Science. In 1993, armed ure,  tant to one of C self-made tycoons before embarking on a career as a tec covering consumer and business tecions in , PC orld, and t Group’s Chief Financial Officer Asia magazine.

    ten for numerous Asian publications, including taps Beijing. In 1999, ion Age, a ernet start-up t er acquired by C Cernet company to list on NASDAQ. raveled extensively in Asia and spent part of  Africa.  in Mandarin and Cantonese and splits ime betion.