With 30 years of corporate communications and marketing experience, Melissa Krantz interviews and develops candidates for C-level communications and marketing positions and corporate board positions. In addition, she works with Jefferson Partners on the firm's own communications and marketing strategies. This includes client relationship strategy; the development of new service offerings; conference development and participation; issues management; media relations; materials development and advertising.

Ms. Krantz began her career working with several leading corporate communications firms where she counseled senior corporate executives. She also served as the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Chief Communications Officer of two publicly-held NYSE-listed corporations. She also served as a co-Founder and chief operating officer of a venture-funded start-up, where she managed all operations including recruitment, human resources, development of corporate culture, and all internal and external communications and marketing. Recently Ms. Krantz has managed her own consultancy, providing marketing and communications services to corporate clients with special emphasis on B2B professional services firms.

Ms. Krantz has a BA in Political Science from Purchase College, and has completed the Wharton School Professional Program course, Fundamentals of Accounting for the Non- Financial Executive. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau serving Metropolitan New York; the Executive Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) of Westchester County, and the Advisory Board of Visions/Services to the Blind and Visually Impaired.

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