Elena's career has been defined by hands-on building across functions and organizations. She started at EnterCard as an analyst working with credit portfolios and consumer analytics, then spent twelve years at Klarna scaling operations across underwriting, credit risk, fraud prevention, business control, procurement, and loss recovery. She's held roles spanning technical execution to leadership - from designing global data infrastructure and modernizing analytical systems to directing multi-functional teams and advising the CFO and Board on capital allocation. Throughout, she's applied AI and technology to solve real operational problems, moving fluidly from code to strategy.

What draws her to Industrifonden is the opportunity to apply operator skills at higher leverage while bringing AI fluency to portfolio companies. She's here to scale Industrifonden's own processes through AI, and to share hands-on knowledge and expertise with founders navigating their own AI adoption and transformation. The work she's spent twelve years preparing for - sitting with founders on hiring, cost discipline, system architecture, and AI integration - is exactly what the portfolio needs. At Industrifonden, she gets to do this across many companies with the freedom to stay engaged long-term, while learning the investing side from partners who bring their own depth.