Curt Laird
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Founder and Managing Director at Re:Frontier
Curt Laird is one of the most experienced foreign entrepreneurs in frontier markets. Having worked in over thirty countries, he spent fourteen years in Afghanistan, where he was a founding executive director of Roshan, Afghanistan’s largest mobile phone operator; launched his own fifty-employee training company; and founded the Business Innovation Hub, a business accelerator at the American University of Afghanistan. He is currently consulting for startups in Nigeria. During his time in Afghanistan, Curt met his future wife, Katrina, a British-Finnish international development professional working on conflict and security sector reform. They have two children, Soraya Kaija and Josiah Jaya, each of whom have four citizenships and the same peripatetic life their parents grew up experiencing.
Founder and managing director of Re:Frontier, Curt Laird is one of the most experienced foreign investors in frontier markets. He is also the author of “The Culture Key: Successful Investing and Entrepreneurship in Frontier and Emerging Markets.”