Aubrey Hruby, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Aubrey Hrubry is the Co-Founder of Insider and the Africa Expert Network (AXN). In her role at Insider, she works with global entrepreneurs to generate PR and – using proprietary mobile built technology – connect them with investors, media and influencers across the U.S. and Europe. Aubrey is also the Partner and Founder of Baylis Emerging Markets, a specialist private equity investor in African Markets. Baylis’ diverse partner team brings together an extensive experience in frontier markets private equity and a unique in-depth expertise on African markets, reinforced by strong operational skills.

At AXN, Aubrey has helped build Africa’s leading information brokerage and expert connection service. The platform provides interested investors and global corporates with a proprietary network of over 500 marketplace, civic and public sector experts. By combining this insight with real-time market data, the company optimizes investment decision making and market entry strategies, while accelerating profitable and risk mitigated deal making. 

Aubrey is the former Managing Director of the Whitaker Group, an Africa-focused strategy and investment advisory firm that has helped facilitate over $2 billion in investment and capital flows to Africa.  Today,  she consults extensively in 20+ African markets and spends much of her time engaging with senior African policy makers and Fortune 500 companies.