Elaine has over 30 years of financial market and corporate treasury experience. Elaine started out her career working in the South African banking sector as a money and capital markets trader, and later as a global corporate treasury professional developing and leading risk and treasury teams in the energy, food, auto and metal sectors.

An active member of the Canadian Alternative Reference Rate (CARR) working group since 2019, Elaine represents Canadian corporate treasurers, providing their input in the development of CORRA and Term CORRA. She also participates in the CARR Loan Sub-Group, is the current co-chair of the Canadian Treasurers Association (CTA), and a member of the Term CORRA Oversight Committee.

Elaine received her MBA in finance from Heriot-Watt University, is a certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and holds the ACG designation from the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada.

Elaine is currently the Assistant Treasurer for Alcoa Corporation.