Claude Grunitzky is the founder of TRACE and TRUE Africa, a media tech platform championing young African voices all over the world. TRACE, which now reaches an audience of more than 100 million people across 150 countries, was successfully sold to a French investor group in July 2010

Grunitzky was raised between Lomé, Togo; Washington, DC; Paris and London. A graduate of London University and MIT, Grunitzky is also the President and a board member at the Watermill Center and serves as member of the Africa Policy Journal's Advisory Board.