My name is Alexander Benford and I was born in the former country of Russia. As a small boy I was interested in sports and tried almost everything imaginable from boxing to marathons. I ran the Olympiad marathon in 1984 in Moscow.

As a young man, I studied to become a teacher of Russian Literature and French in Moscow University. After having completed my education, I worked as a teacher there of Russian  and Russian Literature for foreign students, such as Swedes and Americans. One of my extra teaching duties was managing daily contacts with Moscow embassies, since I was in charge of cultural activities for foreign students. As a result, I became skilled at diplomacy, and polished up my English and French. In 1984 I fell in love with a Swedish woman who was my student. We were married in Moscow and moved to Sweden in 1986.

There I began from the beginning again as an immigrant, with Swedish as a Foreign Language (SFL) studies, and a high school equivalency through KOMVUX in Swedish and French. I then concentrated on building up my own trading company in 1992, subsequently reformed as Benford Invest Ltd. (”Benford Invest AB”) in 1995, which is still in business. However, in October of 1996 I became accepted for 3 terms of study of network administration and systems technology at C3L school and changed my focus to that of a student again.

My social as well as business skill increased as a result of working with embassies and managing my own company. Additional valuable experience, this time of human suffering, came to me due to working during 1990-1995 at Karolinska Hospital in their Emergency Ward. There teamwork and fast, efficient action counted a lot, since even death was not entirely uncommon. 

I somehow became addicted to Internet in1992 and discovered a new (to me) passion for computers. After almost 3 years of technical education with an emphasis on the Windows NT operative system, I still have a passion for computers and plan to work with them for the rest of my life. I am MCSE and trying to take MCSE + Internet