Elias has mentored various industry leaders both on a personal and professional level. He is a visionary entrepreneur who applies holistic business thinking to social and economic challenges facing marginalised and underprivileged communities in rural and urban settings. He founded Zambia's premier and largest legal firm Corpus Legal Practitioners. Elias's current focus is on facilitating capital access and capacity support to promising young entrepreneurs across the full spectrum of African society. He is co-founder and national chairperson of Zambia’s first ever business angels’ network, Zambia Business Angels Network (ZBAN) and is Chairman of the WWF Zambia Advisory Board. He is also a Rhodes Scholar and law graduate from the Universities of Zambia (LLB) and Oxford (BCL)