Melissa L. Norris
Managing Director
San Francisco

melissa@jamesbeck.com
415.391.4567

Melissa is a founding principal of Jamesbeck Global Partners and heads Jamesbeck’s San Francisco office. She was formerly a principal at Monster Worldwide Executive Search, which she joined via the firm’s acquisition of Highland Search Group in 1999, where she specialized in alternative investment management, investment banking and capital markets search.

Melissa’s prior experience was as an executive in the Banking and Debt Capital Markets group of ING Barings in London, where she developed and maintained relationships with the top 100 U.K. corporations, providing debt advisory services, advising clients on bond issues and helping to grow the proprietary leasing book. She began her career as a financial analyst in Kidder, Peabody & Co.’s corporate finance program in New York.

Melissa received a Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Southern Methodist University in 1990. She currently serves on the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.