Through mergers and acquisitions in travel, hotels, real estate, life insurance, and management of sports, facilities and special events, Elmore created Elmore Sports Group, a successful conglomerate. Prior to that venture, he worked at a law firm and was president of a life insurance company.

Elmore and his son fund scholarships for the Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, a joint venture between the IU Maurer School of Law, which has inducted him into its Academy of Law Alumni Fellows, and the IU Kelley School of Business, which presented him its Distinguished Entrepreneur Award.