40 under 40 – 2017 winners

Jelena Rudela

Jelena Rudela
Anaheim, California.

Director of Student Success, Concordia College (CA).

Past National Federation of Croatian Americans Officer-Treasurer. Currently, Jelena is back in California and a Director at Concordia College and serves on the Admissions Committee and Women’s  Leadership Task Force. Jelena finished her studies at UCLA in political studies in 2005 and moved to Washington, DC and had Rudy Perpich Fellowship with the NFCA and continued involvement and was NFCA Treasurer for two years.

Jelena’s thirst for more education and a MBA took her to Mexico City and completed it in Kiel Germany. Her MBA experience brought her a consulting position with Speyside Corporate Relations and within her tenure, exciting collaboration to produce in depth market reports and presentations for    multinationals seeking market entry into Latin America.

She is very proud of her work and their effort to successfully garner approval for a prominent Hepatitis C drug with this consulting position Jelena has done due diligence about several Croatian business opportunities and could end up back there as an entrepreneur. She even volunteered her time for two months to help elect the first woman President of Croatia.

Jelena comes from a very active Croatian American household and during high school was a member of the Los Angeles Croatian Folklore Ensemble. She remains an active member of the NFCA and is a member of the Association of Croatian American Professionals. Famly is from Radovin, near Zadar and Zdrelac, Otok Pasman.

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