Atoosa Sepehr was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 1977 but spent her formative years in Italy. She moved back to Iran with her family when she was 8 years old and on completion of high school went to study at Azad University of Tabriz. Having completed her degree in 2000, she moved to Tehran where she worked as a computer programmer. In 2001, she moved to London to learn English. She returned to Iran in 2003 to work in the stock market in Tehran in order to learn about business processes before studying for an MBA. Atoosa was inspired to start her own company in the Import and Export field and became the Iranian representative for a steel company in London. This led to her moving back to London in 2007. More recently, she developed an interest in food, publishing her first book ‘From a Persian Kitchen’ in 2019 (Little Brown Books). This inspired Atoosa to explore the nutritional value of food, leading to a degree in nutritional therapy from CNM. She is currently practicing as a nutritional therapist and nutrigenomics in Belfast.
Chi Ting (Ling) Yip is an Associate Solicitor at Wilson Nesbitt. Born and raised in Hong Kong, at the age of 18 Ling moved to England for university, before relocating to Northern Ireland in 2017. Ling qualified as a solicitor with Wilson Nesbitt in 2021 and specialises in Real Estate. Ling speaks four languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien and English) and is based in Bangor, Co. Down.