As Chief Financial Officer at Zendesk, Elena has steered the company's exponential growth with deep involvement in company priorities, and continuous focus on efficiency and improving existing processes. With more than 25 years experience as a broad business and finance leader for global Fortune 500 companies such as Visa, Charles Schwab, KPMG and Salesforce, Elena has deep knowledge of the SaaS business model with a proven ability to build teams and partner with business leaders, making her a trusted advisor to growth-oriented companies. She currently also serves on the board of directors and as audit committee chair for both Smartsheet and PagerDuty.