Biography
Elaine is a legal executive known for strategic and pragmatic leadership. She has a track record of facilitating business and managing legal risk at the enterprise level. Her experience ranges from government to AmLaw 100 to tech. Elaine has held leadership positions, focused on commercial transactions, at Fortune 1000 companies (Autodesk, Cisco, HP).
As a General Counsel, Elaine has worked with venture backed, privately-held, and public B2B SaaS companies on complex corporate, M&A, contractual, privacy, employment, and transactional matters. Her international experience includes managing entities in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She has experience with HR tech and platform as a service companies.
One of Elaine’s strengths is her ability to identify critical issues, find practical solutions, and work collaboratively across organizations to solve problems. She has used these skills to streamline commercial contracting, simplify templates, improve renewal rates, and cut negotiation times.
Elaine has enjoyed close partnerships with her colleagues in HR, working on issues throughout the employee lifecycle, worker classification, employee handbooks and ethics issues, and DEI initiatives.
Elaine is a member of the California, District of Columbia, and New York Bars. She was the first in house chair of the Executive Committee of the California State Bar’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section.
A California native and mom of two, Elaine is adjusting to an empty nest by working towards her goal of hiking all the trails in Marin County.