Elis is a sustainability, food waste and circular economy change-maker with a contagious passion for food, environment, community empowerment and systems thinking. Elis enjoys public speaking and loves inspiring and empowering people and businesses to make a change. She believes in genuine collaboration and disruptive innovation. Her key strengths are her unique entrepreneurial approach to solving problems and long term visionary thinking.
Elis has kickstarted, grown and managed strong food sharing communities in Jersey, Guernsey and Stockholm with the aim to reduce and solve the issue of food waste via her involvement and several roles in the OLIO start up. She was a finalist of the Jersey Pride Awards in 2017 and 2018 under the Environmentalist of the Year category.
In 2019 she was invited to be a speaker at the 10th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region that aimed to reinforce cooperation in the region via embracing the concept of circular economy.