Melissa is a Director and Co-Head of Real Assets and is responsible for real assets investment programs, including portfolio construction, risk management and manager evaluation. She supports investment processes, manager sourcing and selection, portfolio analysis and implementation, as well as governance management and reporting. Melissa teaches and helped design ILPA’s “Real Assets for the Limited Partner”, a one day, deep-dive seminar offered to ILPA members. Prior to joining Aksia in 2021, Melissa was at Aquiline Capital Partners, where she was primarily responsible for the firm’s investor relations efforts. Before that she was a Vice President in the Infrastructure Investments Group