Maria Benad, born in 1983 in the south of Saxony, finished her Diploma studies in Business Information Technology in 2007. After an internship in London she joined a medium-sized pharmaceutical producer as IT Administrator and proceeded to work for the town of Dresden as Data Processing Executive SAP for over 10 years. She joined GlobalFoundries in 2023 as Principal Analyst Technical Project Management SAP HCM PEP.

She’s a mom of 3 girls, loves cats and her garden and writes cozy love romance books in her free time.