 Siminoff graduated with Honors from Stanford University, where he was a member of the varsity swimming & diving team, which went on to win multiple Pacific-10 Conference and NCAA Championships.He later earned an MFA from the USC Film School in 1989 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1993.Having founded global syndicate barter company EastNet in Moscow and Eastern Europe, he graduated from business school and joined Capital Research, which became the largest mutual fund in the world as measured by assets under management after he left.