Elias specialises in cybersecurity, data protection and public policy. He serves on the African Union Task Forces on a Cybersecurity Strategy for Africa and on the Convention on Cybersecurity and Personal Data Protection (Malabo Convention). His most recent work product includes a successful review and amendment of the Malabo Convention.

Previously, Elias developed policy for NATO and the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence on matters ranging from rapid response capability to cyber defense. The U.S. Department of Defense’s successful March 2016 Hack the Pentagon Initiative is in keeping with recommendations that Elias’s group developed for the 2012 NATO Heads of State Summit chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama. He also worked for Finland’s first female Prime Minister Anneli Jaatteenmaki and European Parliament Vice President Libor Roucek.

Elias founded the Data Privacy and Product Compliance Programs at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, where his work led to game-changing transnational expansion and revenues. At UpGuard in Silicon Valley, Elias was the Team Lead for Integrations and was embedded in the full breadth of Critical Infrastructure protection particularly focused on New York’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies and others by federal institutions like the U.S. Federal Reserve, FDIC and Comptroller of Currency.