Biography
Melinda Wolfe has served as Chief People Officer and led talent and DEI initiatives at companies including GLG, Pearson, Bloomberg, American Express and Goldman Sachs. She works with leadership teams to optimize strategy and culture through engagement, productivity and profitability. She began her career at Merrill Lynch, managing billions of dollars of finance transactions.
Ms. Wolfe holds several leadership positions in the non-profit sector. Currently, she chairs the board of the ZanaAfrica Foundation and serves on the boards of Echoing Green, Coqual, W.O.M.E.N. In America, Generation W and the National Education Equity Lab. She previously served on the NYC Mayor’s Commission on Women and on advisory boards for several academic institutions including Barnard’s Athena Center, Duke University, Washington University and Columbia’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she also taught as an Adjunct Faculty Member.