Elaina is an Assistant General Counsel at Vanguard where she currently focuses on new product expansions and provides day-to-day legal advice for Vanguard’s retail brokerage businesses. Prior to her current role, Elaina supported Vanguard’s global public policy group and helped to develop Vanguard’s advocacy strategy on the SEC’s most recent proposed rules, including those related to securities lending transaction reporting, money market reforms, cybersecurity risk disclosure, climate risks and ESG disclosures. Elaina previously supported Vanguard’s capital markets group and managed a team that helped to expand and reorganize the Vanguard funds’ global securities lending program and provided global regulatory and legal advice for Vanguard’s mutual funds and securities finance businesses.  Elaina received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and B.A. from Georgetown University.  She is a member of the Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania bar associations.