Melissa King

As Chief Transformation Officer, Melissa King is responsible for guiding Ellucian’s strategic plans to scale the company’s business, accelerate growth and solidify the foundation for ongoing innovation. In this newly created role, Melissa will broaden the value Ellucian brings its customers by providing a faster and simpler path to the cloud and SaaS, expanding the global marketplace, and broadening the company’s capabilities through strategic partnerships and M&A activities.

Over her more than 20 years of service at the company, she has provided leadership to teams focused on new product development and the introduction of emerging technologies and methodologies. Her specialties include building a global workforce, business transformation, go-to-market strategy, acquisition integration, revenue acceleration, opportunity analysis, and change management.

Before stepping into this role, Melissa was senior vice president of Revenue Strategy and Operations, where she led Ellucian’s field teams with a focus on the processes and methodologies that enable industry-leading, global product strategy and delivery. Previously, Melissa served as vice president of R&D within Ellucian, where she led global product development teams through the delivery of centralized common functions and services, including engineering centers of excellence, test engineering, and user experience design.

Melissa is also engaged in community and industry programs that promote women in technology and STEM education. Melissa studied at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and holds a B.B.A. with concentrations in applied information systems and business.