Executive Biographies

Elena leads our Services organisation in Australia and New Zealand, partnering with our enterprise customers to turn ambitious AI and cloud agendas into real business outcomes. 

Over the past six and a half years, Elena led our Specialist Team Unit (STU) in Australia and New Zealand. In this role, she was responsible for our AI, Cloud and technical sales specialists across all of our cloud platforms, guiding the business through a deeply transformative period and shaping the evolution of the STU organisation. She brings deep transformation experience, strong commercial judgement and a clear focus on outcomes to the Services team, as customers increasingly look beyond technology adoption to reimagine how they operate and create value through AI. 

Elena spent 7 years working in Japan for Google Japan as the Google Technical Services Director, and prior to that as the PayPal Japan Country Manager. Prior to this, Elena spent 16 years in payments with PayPal and American Express in various business and technology roles across Asia Pacific. 

Before her career in payments, she was the IT Strategy Manager and Shared IT Operations Centre Manager at Boral Australia, a large Australian multi-national in the energy and construction business. She started her career at Coopers & Lybrand Australia and UK in Management Consulting Services. 

In addition, Elena was elected as a Councillor on Sydney’s Woollahra Municipal Council in 2012. 

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting, Finance & Information Systems) from the University of New South Wales, and an Executive MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a Chartered Accountant.