Eliot founded and led McLarty Associate’s Africa practice from 2013-2018. He is the General Partner of Tofino Capital, a venture fund focused on frontier markets across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Eliot is a member of the United States Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee on Africa, Yale University’s President’s Council on International Activities and a former international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has an MA from Yale, and grew up on Vancouver Island.