JGovender

Graduated from eletrical engineering.

Only formal business background:
-1 engineering economics class (no actual economics, but we did do the basics of finance and accouting that are covered in the CFA curriculum, plus I think our teacher was a CFA holder also),
-1 marketing course
-entrepreneuship seminars

Non-formal:
20 years of reading my dad's Businessweek magazines (since I was a kid...)
over a dozen books read on personal finance, popular economics, selling, etc.