Yelena is a well-known legal expert and GR and Lobbying practitioner in Kazakhstan, specializing in the sphere of digital platforms and digital technologies. As the Managing Director of the largest Kazakhstani association of digital companies for 8 years, Yelena successfully represented the interests of technology companies in state agencies, the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Commission. Yelena is a member of the antitrust specialists community in Kazakhstan and the EAEU, a permanent participant in discussions on the development of antimonopoly regulation of digital markets in Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Commission. Yelena has a PhD in Law from the Kazakh State Law University, a diploma in GR and Lobbying from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and an MBA from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration  (RANEPA), Russia.