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American investor
Aubrey Hruby
Hruby in 2019
EducationGeorgetown University
OrganizationAtlantic Council
WebsiteAubreyhruby.com

Aubrey Hruby is an American writer, investor, and co-founder of InsiderPR and Africa Expert Network, and she speaks and writes regularly on African business issues in media. As a Senior Fellow at the Africa Center, Atlantic Council, she has worked with government agencies and policy-makers on business and is an advisor on Africa-focused investments.

Hruby earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from Georgetown University, where she currently teaches. She is the co-author of the award-winning book The Next Africa (Macmillan, 2015), a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Young Leader at the Milken Institute.

In 2018, Hruby co-founded Tofino Capital, a venture capital firm that targets early-stage startups in emerging markets.

References

  1. "Speaker | Milken Institute". milkeninstitute.org. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  2. ^ "Meet the Investor: Aubrey Hruby, Tofino Capital". Disrupt Africa. 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  3. Di Pietro, Ben (2014-07-23). "FCPA Fears Hinder U.S. Companies Considering Africa". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
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  5. "The Atlantic Council -- "Aubrey Hruby testifies before the US International Trade Commission"". January 23, 2018.
  6. "MCC Advisory Council". Millennium Challenge Corporation. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
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  8. Bright, Jake. "An E-Commerce Challenge in Africa: Selling to People Who Aren't Online". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  9. "The Many Africas". Foreign Affairs. 2019-08-14. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
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  11. Kene-Okafor, Tage (2022-04-21). "Tofino Capital reaches first close of $10M fund to back startups in frontier markets". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-24.


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