Born in Venezuela. Since 1998 has been working in Sales, mostly in the Geospatial area. Moved to Mexico in year 2000 where she accepted a job in Guadalajara as a Sales Rep. at GTT Netcorp, which represented SPOT Image and ER Mapper, a specialized software for Remote Sensing. Elena was involved in the first sales of high-resolution satellite to government agencies.  From 2006 to 2012 she worked as a Regional Sales Manger for Digitalglobe, covering Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. Before joining Planet, Elena had worked for Microdrones as Regional Sales Manager from 2016 to 2018 and from 2018 to late 2019 at MAXAR. She is a proud mother of a 25 year old young man, and she has a old good friend, a Jack Russell called rafaello. Elena is a kundalini yoga teacher, she has taught this discipline for more than 10 years.