Head of Commodity Buy Side Sales, London Metal ExchangeElena is a highly experienced sales and business development executive, with strong knowledge of financial markets and over 10 years of experience in commodity derivatives and other asset classes. In her current capacity, Elena is responsible for the financial users of the LME markets, focusing on hedge funds, CTAs, pension funds, sovereign funds as well as proprietary trading businesses. This includes an educational aspect to keep clients abreast of new products which best suit their strategies and liaison with all parts of the business, including front, middle and back offices. Previously, Elena covered business development at OSTC - the largest proprietary trading company in Europe Elena’s highlights at OSTC include overseeing the opening of new greenfield offices in Russia and Turkey. Prior to that, Elena worked in the commodities team at NYSE Liffe, the derivatives arm of NYSE, where she was responsible for generating new business and increasing liquidity from existing clients, predominantly on the proprietary trading side, covering soft and agricultural commodities. She started her career 10 years ago at the precious and base metals consultancy GFMS - now part of Thomson Reuters - where she was covering precious metals; PGMs and industrial metals research and analysis.