Elena Uzunova
Compliance Officer
Executive Snapshot
Elena Uzunova is a Compliance Officer at Unified CLO, where she supports clients on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related work. She brings a practical, structured approach to compliance: one that focuses on making legal and regulatory requirements understandable, usable, and operational inside a business.
Elena works best where legal, compliance, technology, and business judgment meet. Her perspective is shaped by experience in financial crime compliance, RegTech operations, applied legal research, AI governance, and cross-border regulatory environments. She approaches client work with care, dependability, and a strong focus on helping senior legal and business teams move matters forward clearly and responsibly.
Why Clients Call Elena
Fractional In-House Counsel Support
Elena provides embedded compliance and legal support for growing companies. From managing policies and KYC workflows to guiding product teams on regulatory risk, she functions like an in-house legal ops leader—without the overhead.M&A Diligence & Deal Strategy - She supports private equity and founder-led businesses in diligencing risk across jurisdictions. With a sharp eye for AML gaps, governance holes, and SaaS compliance red flags, Elena helps clients navigate deals with confidence.
Capital Raise Readiness - Elena prepares investor-facing compliance documentation and privacy checklists that hold up under scrutiny. She’s helped fintechs close seed rounds by organizing disclosures, aligning policies, and simplifying the story.
Pre-Suit Investigations & Litigation Support - With experience handling internal reviews and drafting legal response protocols, Elena supports internal investigations and document readiness efforts, often coordinating discovery alongside outside counsel.
Technology Transactions & AI Governance - Elena reviews and drafts SaaS and data processing agreements, and is a go-to for AI companies needing help with governance, bias mitigation, or preparing for EU AI Act-style scrutiny.
Elena’s Story
Elena’s career has developed at the intersection of law, compliance, technology, and operations. Her early academic work focused on financial technology and legal systems, including her Oxford dissertation, “Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?” That research interest later developed into a broader focus on how law responds to technology, regulatory change, and new forms of risk.
Her financial crime compliance experience gave her a practical foundation in regulated business environments. At FXCM, Elena worked on AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence, regulatory change monitoring, and internal guidance. That work shaped the way she thinks today: compliance is not just about knowing the rule; it is about making sure the rule can be applied consistently inside a real organization.
Elena’s RegTech and operational experience added another layer to that perspective. Managing technology deliverables, contractors, vendor timelines, policies, reports, and process improvements taught her how legal and compliance work interacts with execution. She understands that a good control, policy, or process must survive daily use.
At Unified CLO, Elena brings these threads together. Her work now focuses on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related support. She is particularly interested in how companies can build compliance systems that are practical, proportionate, and strong enough to support growth, procurement, diligence, and executive decision-making.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Compliance Officer
May 2025 – Present
At Unified CLO, Elena provides compliance and regulatory support to growth-oriented and small to mid-sized clients. Her work focuses on helping clients translate business objectives into practical governance processes, controls, policies, and documentation.
A significant part of Elena’s current work involves AI compliance and regulatory compliance. She supports client adoption of GenAI and LLM tools by helping assess risk, define guardrails, and structure documentation around acceptable use, data handling, confidentiality, human review, audit trails, and related compliance expectations.
Elena also assists with policy and procedure work, regulatory research, contract-related review, and internal compliance workflows. Her role often requires connecting legal analysis with operational reality, so that clients are not left with documents that sound polished but are difficult to use.
Within the Unified CLO model, Elena contributes as part of a broader legal department rather than as a narrow specialist. She supports senior attorneys, helps organize complex issues, and keeps compliance work moving in a way that is clear, accurate, and useful for the client.
FXCM
Financial Crime Compliance Officer
May 2019 – July 2021
At FXCM, Elena worked in financial crime compliance within a regulated financial services environment. Her work included AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customers, source of funds and source of wealth review, and documentation of investigative rationale.
She supported compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks, including FCA, ASIC, CySEC, and FSCA requirements. This required monitoring regulatory change, understanding jurisdictional expectations, and translating those expectations into internal guidance that teams could apply in practice.
Elena also prepared investigator playbooks, internal guidance, AML/CTF policies, and procedures. This experience gave her a strong foundation in risk-based thinking, documentation discipline, and the importance of consistent processes across jurisdictions and teams.
CyberLex Compliance
Company Manager
August 2013 – 2025
In her RegTech operational role, Elena managed day-to-day business operations, coordinated contractors, monitored technology deliverables, and supported project execution. The role required attention to deadlines, vendor performance, operational documentation, and process reliability.
This experience is directly relevant to her work with legal and compliance teams. Elena understands that compliance does not operate in a vacuum; it depends on people, systems, workflows, ownership, and follow-through.
Her work in this role included cost-saving initiatives, process improvements, policies, reports, and operational documentation. It also strengthened her ability to work across distributed teams and support execution without unnecessary complexity.
Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP
Legal Intern
September 2018 – December 2018
Elena completed a legal internship at Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP, a human-rights-focused practice in Bulgaria. She supported legal research, case file preparation, and ad hoc work in a fast-moving legal environment.
This experience reinforced the importance of careful research, factual accuracy, and respect for the real-world consequences of legal work. It also contributed to Elena’s continuing interest in human rights, legal systems, and the way legal protections operate in practice.
How Elena Helps Clients
As part of a Unified CLO Client Success Team, Elena helps clients move compliance and regulatory work from open questions to organized action. She supports senior attorneys and client teams by researching issues, preparing structured analysis, reviewing documentation, drafting policies and procedures, and helping maintain clear records of the work being done.
Elena is often most useful where a matter has many moving parts. She helps break down complex regulatory or compliance questions into manageable pieces, identifies what needs to be clarified, and supports the creation of documentation that can be understood by legal, compliance, product, operations, and executive stakeholders.
Clients should expect Elena to be thoughtful, steady, and careful. She does not approach compliance as a box-checking exercise. She looks for what the business needs to understand, what evidence should exist, who needs to own the next step, and how the work can be made practical enough to hold up over time.
Elena particularly enjoys AI governance, regulatory research, contract-related work, and compliance documentation. She brings a research-oriented mindset, but her focus is practical: helping the client’s legal department operate with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
Education
University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria, EU)
Master of Laws, 2025
Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom)
Bachelor of Laws with Honours, 2013
Dissertation: 'Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?'
Bar Admissions
Elena is in the process of obtaining admission to the Bulgarian Bar in the European Union.
Beyond the Bar
Elena writes and publishes on AI governance, technology, compliance, and legal systems. Her work reflects a long-standing interest in how regulation can be translated into practical structures that businesses can actually use.
She is also the author of books and practical resources on startup compliance, AI governance, and legal technology topics. Her writing is aimed at making complex legal and compliance issues clearer for founders, legal teams, compliance professionals, and technology businesses.
Elena is involved in the AI Execution Governance Forum as Regulatory Translation and Compliance Infrastructure Lead. Her work in that setting reflects the same approach she brings to client matters: legal and compliance systems should be understandable, operational, and connected to real decision-making.
Outside of her client work, Elena continues to study, write, and build her expertise in AI governance, human rights, criminal justice, and emerging technology. She is especially interested in the point where legal systems, technology, and institutional accountability meet.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
Elena Uzunova
Compliance Officer
Executive Snapshot
Elena Uzunova is a Compliance Officer at Unified CLO, where she supports clients on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related work. She brings a practical, structured approach to compliance: one that focuses on making legal and regulatory requirements understandable, usable, and operational inside a business.
Elena works best where legal, compliance, technology, and business judgment meet. Her perspective is shaped by experience in financial crime compliance, RegTech operations, applied legal research, AI governance, and cross-border regulatory environments. She approaches client work with care, dependability, and a strong focus on helping senior legal and business teams move matters forward clearly and responsibly.
Why Clients Call Elena
Fractional In-House Counsel Support
Elena provides embedded compliance and legal support for growing companies. From managing policies and KYC workflows to guiding product teams on regulatory risk, she functions like an in-house legal ops leader—without the overhead.M&A Diligence & Deal Strategy - She supports private equity and founder-led businesses in diligencing risk across jurisdictions. With a sharp eye for AML gaps, governance holes, and SaaS compliance red flags, Elena helps clients navigate deals with confidence.
Capital Raise Readiness - Elena prepares investor-facing compliance documentation and privacy checklists that hold up under scrutiny. She’s helped fintechs close seed rounds by organizing disclosures, aligning policies, and simplifying the story.
Pre-Suit Investigations & Litigation Support - With experience handling internal reviews and drafting legal response protocols, Elena supports internal investigations and document readiness efforts, often coordinating discovery alongside outside counsel.
Technology Transactions & AI Governance - Elena reviews and drafts SaaS and data processing agreements, and is a go-to for AI companies needing help with governance, bias mitigation, or preparing for EU AI Act-style scrutiny.
Elena’s Story
Elena’s career has developed at the intersection of law, compliance, technology, and operations. Her early academic work focused on financial technology and legal systems, including her Oxford dissertation, “Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?” That research interest later developed into a broader focus on how law responds to technology, regulatory change, and new forms of risk.
Her financial crime compliance experience gave her a practical foundation in regulated business environments. At FXCM, Elena worked on AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence, regulatory change monitoring, and internal guidance. That work shaped the way she thinks today: compliance is not just about knowing the rule; it is about making sure the rule can be applied consistently inside a real organization.
Elena’s RegTech and operational experience added another layer to that perspective. Managing technology deliverables, contractors, vendor timelines, policies, reports, and process improvements taught her how legal and compliance work interacts with execution. She understands that a good control, policy, or process must survive daily use.
At Unified CLO, Elena brings these threads together. Her work now focuses on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related support. She is particularly interested in how companies can build compliance systems that are practical, proportionate, and strong enough to support growth, procurement, diligence, and executive decision-making.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Compliance Officer
May 2025 – Present
At Unified CLO, Elena provides compliance and regulatory support to growth-oriented and small to mid-sized clients. Her work focuses on helping clients translate business objectives into practical governance processes, controls, policies, and documentation.
A significant part of Elena’s current work involves AI compliance and regulatory compliance. She supports client adoption of GenAI and LLM tools by helping assess risk, define guardrails, and structure documentation around acceptable use, data handling, confidentiality, human review, audit trails, and related compliance expectations.
Elena also assists with policy and procedure work, regulatory research, contract-related review, and internal compliance workflows. Her role often requires connecting legal analysis with operational reality, so that clients are not left with documents that sound polished but are difficult to use.
Within the Unified CLO model, Elena contributes as part of a broader legal department rather than as a narrow specialist. She supports senior attorneys, helps organize complex issues, and keeps compliance work moving in a way that is clear, accurate, and useful for the client.
FXCM
Financial Crime Compliance Officer
May 2019 – July 2021
At FXCM, Elena worked in financial crime compliance within a regulated financial services environment. Her work included AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customers, source of funds and source of wealth review, and documentation of investigative rationale.
She supported compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks, including FCA, ASIC, CySEC, and FSCA requirements. This required monitoring regulatory change, understanding jurisdictional expectations, and translating those expectations into internal guidance that teams could apply in practice.
Elena also prepared investigator playbooks, internal guidance, AML/CTF policies, and procedures. This experience gave her a strong foundation in risk-based thinking, documentation discipline, and the importance of consistent processes across jurisdictions and teams.
CyberLex Compliance
Company Manager
August 2013 – 2025
In her RegTech operational role, Elena managed day-to-day business operations, coordinated contractors, monitored technology deliverables, and supported project execution. The role required attention to deadlines, vendor performance, operational documentation, and process reliability.
This experience is directly relevant to her work with legal and compliance teams. Elena understands that compliance does not operate in a vacuum; it depends on people, systems, workflows, ownership, and follow-through.
Her work in this role included cost-saving initiatives, process improvements, policies, reports, and operational documentation. It also strengthened her ability to work across distributed teams and support execution without unnecessary complexity.
Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP
Legal Intern
September 2018 – December 2018
Elena completed a legal internship at Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP, a human-rights-focused practice in Bulgaria. She supported legal research, case file preparation, and ad hoc work in a fast-moving legal environment.
This experience reinforced the importance of careful research, factual accuracy, and respect for the real-world consequences of legal work. It also contributed to Elena’s continuing interest in human rights, legal systems, and the way legal protections operate in practice.
How Elena Helps Clients
As part of a Unified CLO Client Success Team, Elena helps clients move compliance and regulatory work from open questions to organized action. She supports senior attorneys and client teams by researching issues, preparing structured analysis, reviewing documentation, drafting policies and procedures, and helping maintain clear records of the work being done.
Elena is often most useful where a matter has many moving parts. She helps break down complex regulatory or compliance questions into manageable pieces, identifies what needs to be clarified, and supports the creation of documentation that can be understood by legal, compliance, product, operations, and executive stakeholders.
Clients should expect Elena to be thoughtful, steady, and careful. She does not approach compliance as a box-checking exercise. She looks for what the business needs to understand, what evidence should exist, who needs to own the next step, and how the work can be made practical enough to hold up over time.
Elena particularly enjoys AI governance, regulatory research, contract-related work, and compliance documentation. She brings a research-oriented mindset, but her focus is practical: helping the client’s legal department operate with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
Education
University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria, EU)
Master of Laws, 2025
Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom)
Bachelor of Laws with Honours, 2013
Dissertation: 'Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?'
Bar Admissions
Elena is in the process of obtaining admission to the Bulgarian Bar in the European Union.
Beyond the Bar
Elena writes and publishes on AI governance, technology, compliance, and legal systems. Her work reflects a long-standing interest in how regulation can be translated into practical structures that businesses can actually use.
She is also the author of books and practical resources on startup compliance, AI governance, and legal technology topics. Her writing is aimed at making complex legal and compliance issues clearer for founders, legal teams, compliance professionals, and technology businesses.
Elena is involved in the AI Execution Governance Forum as Regulatory Translation and Compliance Infrastructure Lead. Her work in that setting reflects the same approach she brings to client matters: legal and compliance systems should be understandable, operational, and connected to real decision-making.
Outside of her client work, Elena continues to study, write, and build her expertise in AI governance, human rights, criminal justice, and emerging technology. She is especially interested in the point where legal systems, technology, and institutional accountability meet.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
Elena Uzunova
Compliance Officer
Executive Snapshot
Elena Uzunova is a Compliance Officer at Unified CLO, where she supports clients on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related work. She brings a practical, structured approach to compliance: one that focuses on making legal and regulatory requirements understandable, usable, and operational inside a business.
Elena works best where legal, compliance, technology, and business judgment meet. Her perspective is shaped by experience in financial crime compliance, RegTech operations, applied legal research, AI governance, and cross-border regulatory environments. She approaches client work with care, dependability, and a strong focus on helping senior legal and business teams move matters forward clearly and responsibly.
Why Clients Call Elena
Fractional In-House Counsel Support
Elena provides embedded compliance and legal support for growing companies. From managing policies and KYC workflows to guiding product teams on regulatory risk, she functions like an in-house legal ops leader—without the overhead.M&A Diligence & Deal Strategy - She supports private equity and founder-led businesses in diligencing risk across jurisdictions. With a sharp eye for AML gaps, governance holes, and SaaS compliance red flags, Elena helps clients navigate deals with confidence.
Capital Raise Readiness - Elena prepares investor-facing compliance documentation and privacy checklists that hold up under scrutiny. She’s helped fintechs close seed rounds by organizing disclosures, aligning policies, and simplifying the story.
Pre-Suit Investigations & Litigation Support - With experience handling internal reviews and drafting legal response protocols, Elena supports internal investigations and document readiness efforts, often coordinating discovery alongside outside counsel.
Technology Transactions & AI Governance - Elena reviews and drafts SaaS and data processing agreements, and is a go-to for AI companies needing help with governance, bias mitigation, or preparing for EU AI Act-style scrutiny.
Elena’s Story
Elena’s career has developed at the intersection of law, compliance, technology, and operations. Her early academic work focused on financial technology and legal systems, including her Oxford dissertation, “Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?” That research interest later developed into a broader focus on how law responds to technology, regulatory change, and new forms of risk.
Her financial crime compliance experience gave her a practical foundation in regulated business environments. At FXCM, Elena worked on AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence, regulatory change monitoring, and internal guidance. That work shaped the way she thinks today: compliance is not just about knowing the rule; it is about making sure the rule can be applied consistently inside a real organization.
Elena’s RegTech and operational experience added another layer to that perspective. Managing technology deliverables, contractors, vendor timelines, policies, reports, and process improvements taught her how legal and compliance work interacts with execution. She understands that a good control, policy, or process must survive daily use.
At Unified CLO, Elena brings these threads together. Her work now focuses on AI compliance, regulatory compliance, governance documentation, regulatory research, and contract-related support. She is particularly interested in how companies can build compliance systems that are practical, proportionate, and strong enough to support growth, procurement, diligence, and executive decision-making.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Compliance Officer
May 2025 – Present
At Unified CLO, Elena provides compliance and regulatory support to growth-oriented and small to mid-sized clients. Her work focuses on helping clients translate business objectives into practical governance processes, controls, policies, and documentation.
A significant part of Elena’s current work involves AI compliance and regulatory compliance. She supports client adoption of GenAI and LLM tools by helping assess risk, define guardrails, and structure documentation around acceptable use, data handling, confidentiality, human review, audit trails, and related compliance expectations.
Elena also assists with policy and procedure work, regulatory research, contract-related review, and internal compliance workflows. Her role often requires connecting legal analysis with operational reality, so that clients are not left with documents that sound polished but are difficult to use.
Within the Unified CLO model, Elena contributes as part of a broader legal department rather than as a narrow specialist. She supports senior attorneys, helps organize complex issues, and keeps compliance work moving in a way that is clear, accurate, and useful for the client.
FXCM
Financial Crime Compliance Officer
May 2019 – July 2021
At FXCM, Elena worked in financial crime compliance within a regulated financial services environment. Her work included AML/CTF compliance, KYC reviews, enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customers, source of funds and source of wealth review, and documentation of investigative rationale.
She supported compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks, including FCA, ASIC, CySEC, and FSCA requirements. This required monitoring regulatory change, understanding jurisdictional expectations, and translating those expectations into internal guidance that teams could apply in practice.
Elena also prepared investigator playbooks, internal guidance, AML/CTF policies, and procedures. This experience gave her a strong foundation in risk-based thinking, documentation discipline, and the importance of consistent processes across jurisdictions and teams.
CyberLex Compliance
Company Manager
August 2013 – 2025
In her RegTech operational role, Elena managed day-to-day business operations, coordinated contractors, monitored technology deliverables, and supported project execution. The role required attention to deadlines, vendor performance, operational documentation, and process reliability.
This experience is directly relevant to her work with legal and compliance teams. Elena understands that compliance does not operate in a vacuum; it depends on people, systems, workflows, ownership, and follow-through.
Her work in this role included cost-saving initiatives, process improvements, policies, reports, and operational documentation. It also strengthened her ability to work across distributed teams and support execution without unnecessary complexity.
Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP
Legal Intern
September 2018 – December 2018
Elena completed a legal internship at Ekimdjiev & Partners LLP, a human-rights-focused practice in Bulgaria. She supported legal research, case file preparation, and ad hoc work in a fast-moving legal environment.
This experience reinforced the importance of careful research, factual accuracy, and respect for the real-world consequences of legal work. It also contributed to Elena’s continuing interest in human rights, legal systems, and the way legal protections operate in practice.
How Elena Helps Clients
As part of a Unified CLO Client Success Team, Elena helps clients move compliance and regulatory work from open questions to organized action. She supports senior attorneys and client teams by researching issues, preparing structured analysis, reviewing documentation, drafting policies and procedures, and helping maintain clear records of the work being done.
Elena is often most useful where a matter has many moving parts. She helps break down complex regulatory or compliance questions into manageable pieces, identifies what needs to be clarified, and supports the creation of documentation that can be understood by legal, compliance, product, operations, and executive stakeholders.
Clients should expect Elena to be thoughtful, steady, and careful. She does not approach compliance as a box-checking exercise. She looks for what the business needs to understand, what evidence should exist, who needs to own the next step, and how the work can be made practical enough to hold up over time.
Elena particularly enjoys AI governance, regulatory research, contract-related work, and compliance documentation. She brings a research-oriented mindset, but her focus is practical: helping the client’s legal department operate with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
Education
University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria, EU)
Master of Laws, 2025
Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom)
Bachelor of Laws with Honours, 2013
Dissertation: 'Electronic Money: Quo Vadis?'
Bar Admissions
Elena is in the process of obtaining admission to the Bulgarian Bar in the European Union.
Beyond the Bar
Elena writes and publishes on AI governance, technology, compliance, and legal systems. Her work reflects a long-standing interest in how regulation can be translated into practical structures that businesses can actually use.
She is also the author of books and practical resources on startup compliance, AI governance, and legal technology topics. Her writing is aimed at making complex legal and compliance issues clearer for founders, legal teams, compliance professionals, and technology businesses.
Elena is involved in the AI Execution Governance Forum as Regulatory Translation and Compliance Infrastructure Lead. Her work in that setting reflects the same approach she brings to client matters: legal and compliance systems should be understandable, operational, and connected to real decision-making.
Outside of her client work, Elena continues to study, write, and build her expertise in AI governance, human rights, criminal justice, and emerging technology. She is especially interested in the point where legal systems, technology, and institutional accountability meet.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
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