Veronika Bellone left her native hometown Berlin shortly after graduating in economics and has lived in Switzerland ever since. Franchising has shaped her live. She has worked as a franchise manager, teaches franchising at universities, advices customers with her own franchise consultancy in Zug and writes specialist and non-fiction books about franchising, among other things.
Thomas Matla was also born in Berlin.
He studied social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated with a diploma. He has worked for international advertising agencies in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich before moving to Switzerland to support Veronika's franchise consultancy. The author duo started their crime novel franchise in January 2024.