Melissa is the Chief Financial Office and Chief Compliance Office of Kingfish Group. In this role, Melissa has overall responsibility for controllership, financial reporting activities, treasury, budgeting, financial planning, and regulatory compliance of the company.

Prior to Kingfish, Melissa was Vice President, Finance at Shamrock Capital Advisors, an alternative investment manager in the media, entertainment, and communications vertical with developed expertise investing in entertainment intellectual property. She was responsible for the controllership of alternative investment funds, treasury, and financial reporting of the company. During her time there she successfully contributed to significant growth of the company and to the acquisition and monitoring of over 50 alternative investments.

Previously, she was Associate Director of Private Debt for SS&C Technologies and Vice President and Accounting Manager of Alternative Investments at BNY Mellon. Melissa began her career in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Melissa has over twenty years of combined experience in the alternative investments industry.

Melissa graduated cum laude from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and earned a Master of Accounting from the University of Southern California.