With 20+ years of international experience as an agile, innovation-driven chief executive across the cybersecurity, SaaS, and IoT sectors, Vanessa brings deep industry expertise and results-oriented leadership that has enabled business turnarounds, rapid growth, and financial stability for global organizations operating in highly regulated B2B, B2C, and B2G industry verticals. In her current capacity as Chief Financial Operating Officer (CFOO) for Elamant, Vanessa deploys this expertise to provide strategic direction for Elamant’s operations, finance, and compliance functions across global operations while devising investment and liquidity strategies to drive growth for Elamant.

Born and raised in Australia, Vanessa established herself as a visionary growth champion early in her career by achieving breakthrough expansion for several Australia-based software firms under highly volatile market conditions. These achievements enabled Vanessa to grow as a cross-functional leader spearheading aggressive business expansion across high-potential markets, initially in APAC and later across North America, EMEA, and LATAM.

By 2014, Vanessa assumed global operational responsibilities, which included building internationalcorporate operations from the ground up while consolidating operations fragmented across six continents. She excelled in this role by establishing a fully functional and compliant operational infrastructure in just three months and conducting high-level operational audits ofglobal sitesto make strategic recommendations on optimizing global operations. Most recently, she played an instrumental role in executing anoperational and financial risk mitigation strategy for COVID-19.

Vanessa’s impact has not been limited to operational optimization alone. Throughout her career, she has acquired a reputation as a collaborative leader with exceptional intercultural skills who builds trust-based, performance-driven cultures across dispersed international teams. This combination of robust planning and implementation skills and people-centric leadership position Vanessa as a trailblazing executive who can build world-class operations and compliance solutions while leading strategic business expansions to deliver unsurpassed value to both the business and its clients.