One of our core leaders, Elena serves as CEO of Flowlink Environmental leading the company’s strategic planning, technical due diligence, and product team integrations. A PhD chemist with years of post-doctoral research experience under her belt, she is intimately involved in company's Quality Management and Research & Development Programs. 

Elena’s passion for environmental issues coupled with her deep and expansive knowledge of current construction water treatment and monitoring practices set her on a path of identifying the gap in the construction market and introducing the concept of an automated, real-time discharge monitoring and control system that would minimize risk of environmental contamination through prevention and early detection. ​ In 2018, together with Tom, Elena co-founded Flowlink Environmental to make this concept a reality. 

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Prior to her role as a co-founder and CEO of Flowlink Environmental, Elena served as the Technical Director at Stormtec Group for four years, leading the development and growth of a new market segment - contaminated water treatment. Before moving into the water management industry, Elena held Application Specialist & Postdoctoral Researcher roles in high-tech nuclear medicine industry and academia working on interdisciplinary projects ranging from preparation of novel materials for heavy metals removal from tap water to development of new cancer diagnostic and therapeutic agents.​

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Elena has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Lomonosov Moscow State University and an MBA in Management of Technology from Simon Fraser University. In 2018, she received an Annual Emerging Environmental Professional Award by the Environmental Managers Association of BC. In her pursuit to create positive change throughout the industry, she currently volunteers on the board of directors of ESCA BC, an association dedicated to increasing the level of expertise in the erosion and sediment control field throughout British Columbia.

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Selected Publications

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• Ranyuk, E.; Ermakova, E.V.; Bovigny, L.; Meyer, M.; Bessmertnykh-Lemeune, A.; Guilard, R.; Rousselin, Y.; Tsivadze A.Y.; Arslanov, V.V. “Towards sensory Langmuir monolayers consisting of macrocyclic pentaaminoanthraquinone” New Journal of Chemistry 2014, 38, 317-329, doi: 10.1039/C3NJ01121F. 

• Michalak J., Birin K.P., Muniappan S., Ranyuk E., Enakieva Y.Y., Gorbunova Y.G., Stern C., BessmertnykhLemeune A., Guilard R. “Synthesis of porphyrin-bis(polyazamacrocycle) triads via Suzuki coupling reaction” Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2014, 18, 35-48, doi: 10.1142/S1088424614500084. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Lebel, R.; Bérubé-Lauziere, Y.; Klarskov, K.; Lecomte, R.; van Lier, J.; Guérin, B. “68Ga/DOTA- and 64Cu/NOTA - Phthalocyanine Conjugates as Fluorescent/PET Bimodal Imaging Probes" Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2013, 24, 1624–1633, doi: 10.1021/bc400257u. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Cauchon, N.; Klarskov, K.; Guérin, B.; van Lier, J.E. “Phthalocyanine-Peptide Conjugates: Receptor Targeting Bifunctional Agents for Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2013, 56, 1520–1534, doi: 10.1021/jm301311c. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Ali, H.; Guerin, B.; van Lier, J. E. “A new approach for the synthesis of 18F-radiolabelled phthalocyanines and porphyrins as potential bimodal/theranostic agents” Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2013, 17, 850, doi: 10.1142/S1088424613500545. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Filatov, M.; Averin, A.; Cheprakov, A.; Beletskaya, I. “The Synthesis of Highly Basic π-Extended Porphyrins by Palladium-Catalyzed Amination” Synthesis 2012, 44, 393-398, doi: 10.1055/s-0031-1289667. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Cauchon, N.; Ali, H.; Lecomte, R.; Guérin, B.; van Lier, J.E. “PET imaging using 64Cu-labeled sulfophthalocyanines: Synthesis and biodistribution” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2011, 21, 74707473, doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.09.121. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Uglov, A.; Meyer, M.; Bessmertnykh Lemeune, A.; Denat, F.; Averin, A.; Beletskaya I.;  Guilard, R. “Rational design of aminoanthraquinones for colorimetric detection of heavy metal ions in aqueous solution” Dalton Transactions 2011, 40, 10491-10502, doi: 10.1039/C1DT10677E. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Morkos Douaihy, C.; Bessmertnykh Lemeune, A.; Guilard, R. “Preparation, characterization and photophysical properties of hybrid materials from rare earth complexes of phosphonato-substituted DOTAM derivatives” New Journal of Chemistry 2011, 35, 1189-1193, doi: 10.1039/c0nj00955e. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Averin, A.; Beletskaya, I. “One-Step Synthesis of Chiral Azamacrocycles via Palladium- Catalyzed Enantioselective Amination of 1,5-Dichloroanthraquinone and 1,5-Dichloroanthracene” Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2010, 352, 2299 – 2305, doi: 10.1002/adsc.201000181. 

• Ranyuk, E.; Morkos Douaihy, C.; Bessmertnykh, A.; Denat, F.; Averin, A.; Beletskaya, I.; Guilard, R. “Diaminoanthraquinone-Linked Polyazamacrocycles: Efficient and Simple Colorimetric Sensor for Lead Ion in Aqueous Solution” Organic Letters 2009, 11, 987-990, doi: 10.1021/ol802926m. 

• Averin, A.; Ranyuk, E.; Buryak, A.; Savelyev, E.; Orlinson, B.; Novakov, I.; Beletskaya, I. “Pd-catalyzed amination in the synthesis of a new family of polyazamacrocycles containing 1,3-disubstituted adamantane moieties” Mendeleev Commun. 2009, 19, 136-138, doi: 10.1016/j.mencom.2009.05.007. 

• Averin, A.; Ranyuk, E.; Buryak, A.; Beletskaya, I. “Palladium - catalyzed Amination in the Synthesis of Polyazapolyoxamacrocycles with Two and Three Anthracene or Anthraquinone Moieties: Scope and Limitations” Chemistry Letters 2008, 3, 160-161, doi:10.1246/cl.2008.160.  

• Averin, A.; Ranyuk, E.; Lukashev, N.; Golub, S.; Buryak, A.; Beletskaya, I. “Palladium-catalyzed amination in the synthesis of macrocycles comprising cholane, polyamine and pyridine units” Tetrahedron Letters 2008, 49, 1188–1191, doi: 10.1002/adsc.200900548.  

• Ranyuk, E. R.; Filatov, M. A.; Cheprakov, A. V.; Averin, A.  D.; Beletskaya, I. P. “Palladium-catalyzed amination of π-extended porphyrins” Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2008, 12, 511. 

• Averin, A.; Ranyuk, E.; Golub, S.; Buryak, A.; Savelyev, E.; Orlinson, B.; Novakov, I.; Beletskaya, I. “Synthesis of a New Family of Adamantylpyridin-2-amines via Pd-catalyzed Amination” Synthesis 2007, 2215-2221, doi: 10.1055/s-2007-983760. 

• Averin, A.; Ranyuk, E.; Lukashev, N.; Beletskaya, I. “Synthesis of Nitrogen- and Oxygen-Containing Macrocycles – Derivatives of Lithocholic Acid” Chemistry: A European Journal 2005, 11, 7030-7039, doi: 10.1002/chem.20050078. 

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Volunteering 

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• Member of the ESCA BC Board of Directors: January 2020 - Current

• Member of the BCEIA Board of Directors: July 2017 - December 2018