Brook Taylor is a New Zealander who has lived and worked in Vietnam since 1997. He has over thirty years of finance and management experience, including as group chief operating officer and CEO of Asset Management at VinaCapital, managing partner of Arthur Andersen Vietnam, and senior audit partner at KPMG. He has an executive MBA from INSEAD and is the founder of several successful startups. Sam Korsmoe is an American who has lived and worked in Vietnam for twenty years. He has worked as a journalist, researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, and writer and has published two books and three short story collections.