Anthony Howcroft is a writer and technology entrepreneur. Originally from England, he left school at eighteen to work as a Computer Operator at a global coffee manufacturer, and spent many years in technology working with large corporates, before studying Creative Writing at Oxford University. Anthony was co-founder of a Californian software company acquired by Microsoft, and for five years led the Microsoft Big Data sales team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2014 he returned to America where he is now the founder and Exec Chairman of SWARM Engineering, an AI optimization platform. His writing has been broadcast on radio and published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. He is married with one daughter, and lives in Cape Cod.