As Global Director of Design Strategy at Ogilvy Worldwide, Elli sat within the C-Suite team and Ogilvy Consulting, leading organizational and systems design mandates and working alongside the global Chief Strategy Officer to design and deploy Ogilvy's transformative OS. At Ogilvy, Elli won 27 Cannes Lion Awards (amongst others) and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 US Marketing & Advertising List Runner-Up.After leaving Ogilvy in 2018, Elli completed an MBA with a focus in Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship, and concurrently founded a product design and strategy consultancy (TINA); helping founders understand their cash runway, building their roadmap to product and brand launch, and matching them with hand-picked creative and strategic partners to get them there.Since then, Elli co-founded Flaus, where she is currently responsible for leading all product, brand, marketing and digital efforts. Under Elli’s stewardship, Flaus has closed just under $4MM in seed funding, and was recently named one of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas of 2023.
