Russell Reynolds Associates Hires Melissa Cameron

Russell Reynolds Associates announced that Melissa Cameron has joined the firm as a key member of the Financial Services, based in Melbourne. She has an extensive background in international finance and investments across a range of management roles, which provides clients with insights into leadership solutions and talent strategy.

“Melissa’s wealth of management experience in a number of functional areas within financial services provides her with a unique ability to advise on talent strategy across investing, distribution and infrastructure. In addition to her depth of functional expertise, she has had the opportunity to work in banking, hedge funds and traditional asset management,” said Peter L O’Brien, leader of Russell Reynolds Associates' Asia Pacific Region. “Her deep knowledge of the challenges our clients face in financial services is an advantage in identifying talent solutions to achieve their business goals.”

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Melissa was a Managing Director and Global Head of Product Strategy at Blackrock, based in New York. In this role, she was responsible for a global business focused on product development, fund structuring, client marketing, investor relations and relationship management. Melissa spent more than eight years with Blackrock in Hong Kong and New York, in management roles across human resources, marketing and global credit. She previously held senior recruitment and HR roles at Alliance Bernstein and Citadel Investment Group in Hong Kong. Melissa began her career as a corporate lawyer, before moving into investment banking at JP Morgan in Sydney, then to Investment New Zealand in New York. Melissa holds a BA in law, with honors, from the University of Tasmania and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW) in Sydney. She was also admitted to the Supreme Court of Tasmania and Federal Court of Australia as a barrister and solicitor.