eliot pence
Eliot Pence is a builder of frontier defense and industrial companies. He is the founder of Dominion Dynamics, a defense firm working to establish sovereign capability in aerospace, autonomy, and command-and-control. From 2018–2022, Eliot led global growth at Anduril Industries, joining as one of the company’s very first business development hires and playing a central role in building it into one of America’s most consequential defense technology companies. He created Anduril’s international go-to-market strategy from scratch, bootstrapped overseas growth, and built teams across three continents—shaping how Anduril scaled as a global defense prime. He was the Chief Business Officer at Osmo and Cambium Biomaterials, leading government and enterprise go-to-market efforts to translate frontier R&D into deployable platforms. Previously, he was a senior director at McLarty Associates, the Washington, DC–based advisory firm. He serves on the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee and the Yale University President’s Council on International Activities. Eliot earned his M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. from the University of Victoria.
Aubrey hruby
Aubrey Hruby is a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council and Palladium, a development contractor and subsidiary of Global Infrastructure Solutions. At the Atlantic Council, she leads the Task Force on Critical Minerals and advises Fortune 500 executives, DFIs, and policymakers on market strategy and partnerships. At Palladium, Aubrey designs blended finance structures and public-private partnerships to drive productivity. Prior to Tofino, Aubrey was Managing Director at The Whitaker Group, an advisory firm focused on faciliting investment in Africa. At TWG, she directed cross-border advisory services, advising Coca-Cola, Cargill, ADM, Starbucks, P&G, Amway among others. Aubrey is the author of an award-winning book, “The Next Africa,” an Axiom Best Business Book Award winner in 2015. Aubrey holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.