Jean-Michel Smith

I was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in the American Midwest. My addiction to travel began with a summer job planting pineapples in Hawaii. I widened my travels while studying engineering at the University of Illinois, spending a semester in Salzburg, Austria, where I learned to speak German. Later I was in Germany for two semesters as part in an exchange program with the Technische Hoschschule Darmstadt. I also had the good fortune of working several summers for Bayer Leverkusen as a Werkstudent (summer intern), further honing my language and IT skills. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science I attended graduate school and went on to work in the financial industry, designing and setting up trading systems in various places around the world. For many years I worked for a hedge fund in Chicago, during which time I wrote my first novel and met my beautiful wife, author Christine Todd. Our journey has since taken us to the other side of the Atlantic, where we enjoy the rich and diverse experiences Europe has to offer.

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