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As a Portfolio Senior Associate in New York, Stephanie Bridges focuses on the health sector. She works with the country teams to provide management support to existing portfolio investments, as well as to identify and conduct diligence on new areas of investment opportunity. Before joining Acumen Fund in May 2011, Stephanie worked as a management consultant with Monitor Group. While most recently based in Monitor’s South Africa office, she managed teams researching and analyzing inclusive markets in East and West Africa for the report “Promise and Progress,” released May 2011. Prior to that, she worked in Monitor’s New York, Dubai and London offices supporting corporate strategy development. She graduated from Harvard University with honors, earning her B.A. in English and American Language and Literature.