About
We've run the functions we now advise on.
We are two senior executives with more than 50 years' experience between us in supply chain risk, regulatory compliance, climate and energy strategy, and commercial leadership. We work with businesses and the investors who back them.
Why we started
Why we started Elea
We've sat on both sides of the table. We know what matters most: lower costs, stronger margins, growing revenue and AI adoption.
Supply chains and customer relationships have become harder to protect: geopolitical tensions, tariffs, energy costs, supplier failures and tougher demands from customers and regulators.
A traditional engagement brings a blended team, from partner to analyst, and the cost grows with every layer. With Elea you get the two of us, from the first conversation to the final fix. No hand-offs, no junior team, just experience.
And we care what happens after the plan is designed. A resilient supply chain protects the people working in it. A business that keeps and grows its customers protects the people who work for it. We want to leave every business we work with stronger than we found it, and we stay until it is.
Leadership
Elena Avesani
Founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Elena spent 28 years at Oracle, where she co-founded the global sustainability programme and led it for 16 years across 175 countries and more than 20,000 suppliers. Her work covered supplier due diligence, audits in high-risk manufacturing, energy strategy and the company's first human rights and modern slavery policies. As Vice President of Sustainability Applications Strategy, she then led AI-enabled climate and sustainability applications that bring climate risk, supply chain and resilience data into finance, planning and procurement decisions.
She was named one of Sustainability Magazine's Top 100 Women in Sustainability three years running (2022 to 2024) and received a 2024 SEAL Sustainability Leadership Award. She advises climate tech start-ups through Tech Nation and holds degrees from Politecnico di Milano and Columbia University. At Elea, she leads supply chain risk and resilience.
Harry Wordsworth
Chief Commercial Officer
Harry has spent more than 25 years building and protecting enterprise revenue. As Chief Customer Officer for Oracle UK&I, he was responsible for a $500 million pipeline. At PwC he led a 170-person team, and at a PE-backed company he ran a 300-person business with full P&L responsibility. At Experian he built a $95 million new-business pipeline from zero, and he has also held senior roles at TransUnion and Ageas/BNP Paribas. He is a former trustee of the National Autistic Society, where he sat on the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee. At Elea, he leads commercial growth.
Get in touch
Start a conversation.
Tell us what you want to protect or grow, on the supply side or the customer side. We'll tell you where we'd look first and whether we can help.
Email us: [email protected]