Elena Volotovskaya

Elena Volotovskaya graduated from the Faculty of Global Economics of the State University of Management in Moscow. In 2006, she became a Ph.D. in Economics and continued her education in the California State University, getting an MBA degree in 2008. Today Elena is an investment guru with many years of experience in the field of M&A. She began her career in Softline as a Director for Institutional Investor Relations, and then founded the Softline Venture Partners Fund. The Fund amount is over 20 million USD, and its portfolio has over 15 projects. The Fund invests in Cloud&SaaS, digital marketing, enterprise software, information security and e-commerce. Elena also runs the joint fund of Softline and the RVC seed fund that makes seed investments into technology projects. Elena not only runs these funds, but also devotes much time to social projects. She sits in the OPORA Russia IT Committee and is a member of the Opora for IT board — an IT project competition for small and medium businesses in Russia. In 2013, Elena has received the prestigious Venture Award 2013 in the category Venture Lady of the Year.