Meet Elena

With a background in economics and management, Elena works with industry partners to co-create IoT driven business models. Her clients rely on Munich Re’s expertise to reduce the downside risk of their IoT business idea and take it to market maturity. For Elena, this means taking on a multitude of roles in an environment with a strong start-up vibe. She develops use cases and offers advice on how to best build products that support the move of service models, such as CapEx to OpEx. As the project manager, she translates customer ideas for accounting, legal departments and hardware developers and discusses frontend requirements with software engineers. Flat hierarchies give Elena daily touchpoints with management that help her push project initiatives. 

There is no such thing as a typical week at the office for Elena. One day at her desk in Munich immersed in an outline for an IoT pilot; another day in a meeting room across the globe, discussing the go-to-market strategy with the executives of an industry partner.