Elena is Microsoft’s Global Business Leader for Healthcare, Pharma and Life Sciences.
In this capacity she is responsible for go-to-market, commercial, and partnerships, enabling AI transformation initiatives in health providers, payors and Life Sciences’ organizations globally. She also leads the sales team for Microsoft’s new portfolio of Dragon Copilot clinical applications outside US.
In 2023 Elena was elected as Member of the DIA Pharma Advisory Council for Europe, Middle East & Africa. She is a Board Member in two startups and serves as Advisor in biopharma and Medtech organisations. She is championing the topic of Longevity from the angle of economics, scientific discovery, prevention and care delivery.
Elena was selected twice as one of the top 50 AI Innovators by Intelligent Health in 2020 and in 2023. She is one of the founding members of the Holomedicine Association; and Vice Chair of the DIGITALEUROPE Executive Council for Healthcare since it’s creation in 2021. She recently joined the Board of Movement Health Foundation, an organization founded by Roche, Siemens Healthineers, Microsoft to build strong and sustainable healthcare systems.
A signature outcome of her work – together with engineering and research – was the design of the AI partnership with Novartis in 2019, and the AI for Leprosy initiative with Novartis Foundation and Fiocruz published in The Lancet/Elsevier. In 2021 Elena spearheaded an innovation project for the prevention of gastric cancer with data and AI, leading to the largest EU consortium working with StratejAI and health providers.
Elena co-chaired the Health Cloud Council from 2015-2019 leading work on secondary use of data and the creation of the first global data collaborative in cardiovascular population health. In 2017, she was elected to the HIMSS Europe Governing Council.
Elena has been working in the health sector for 20+ years, starting in health policy at EU level, as leader for Microsoft’s public sector healthcare in EMEA. Prior to Microsoft she led welfare policy analysis and simulations in Italy, and started her career in oncology patient support programs in France. During her time as Director for Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility at CSR Europe, she worked cross sectors to drive transformation of strategy and business processes.
She is an active advocate and public speaker representing Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences’ AI strategy, and how “Data help save Lives”. She supported the creation of the Healthcare Data Innovation Council, a partnership of healthcare actors to progress regulatory frameworks for data sharing in health and life sciences. Elena championed the transformational impact of meditation in personal and professional development, working with the Centre for Evolutionary Learning. She promotes empowerment of women in leadership as founding member of WiL Network and as champion for Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft.
Elena is a proud mother of two kids with whom she loves to travel, discover art and do sport.