Tamsen Bhachech currently serves as Deputy General Counsel of Regulatory Compliance for a global technology company where she's responsible for the organization's overall compliance program. With over twenty years of legal experience, including roles at both Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, she's well-versed in business strategy, operations, and corporate transactions. In addition to being a lawyer, she has a background in the field of international conflict resolution, has co-founded a non-profit, and is the author of over thirty romantic suspense novels and stories. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Santa Clara University School of Law, she now lives in a small rural town in Northern California with her husband, 200 olive trees, two co-dependent cats (on each other, not her), a sassy husky, and occasionally, her two adult sons.