Calum Chace

Calum retired from full-time work in 2012 to focus on writing after a 30-year career as a journalist, a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He serves as chairman and coach for a handful of growing companies.

Having started his career as a trainee journalist with the BBC, he has always combined business with writing. He has contributed articles to several newspapers, and was a columnist at the FT. He has published several non-fiction books, including The Internet Startup Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000. He is now publishing his first novel, a science thriller called Pandora's Brain.

Calum studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress. He is intrigued by the idea of conscious machines being created this century. He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com.

He lives with his partner and their daughter in London and Sussex.