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Elena Luneva

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Chief Product & Technology Officer at Madison Reed
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Elena Luneva is a product leader and GM at Braintrust, with a history of scaling global businesses at Nextdoor, OpenTable, and BlackRock. She holds an MBA from London Business School and degrees from NYU. Colleagues describe her as passionate, driven, strategic, and smart, highlighting her strong product instincts.

Outside of her executive roles, Elena is an angel investor focused on economic empowerment, climate change, and female founders. She enjoys backcountry skiing and wingfoiling. Her writing reveals a focus on personal growth, learning, and finding balance, expressing excitement for ski trips and volunteering in her kids art class.

She built a new B2B vertical from scratch at Nextdoor that accounted for 30% of the companys revenue at its IPO.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Future of Work
Her current role at Braintrust involves building the future of work, and she frequently posts online about distributed jobs and economic empowerment for talent.
AI in Business
She teaches courses on leveraging AI for executive communication and led Braintrust's pivot to an AI-powered SaaS platform. She writes and speaks about enabling teams with AI.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Madison Reed
6-2024
Fractional CPO, Advisor, Corporate Trainer
Elenetic
1-2025
Partner: Executive Leadership
Maven
3-2017 - 3-2025
Advisor
NFX
6-2022 - 1-2025
Chief Product Officer & General Manager
Braintrust
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Education
2010 - 2010
MBA
London Business School
2007 - 2010
MBA
NYU Stern School of Business
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