Melissa Powel

Melissa is the Chief Experience Officer of Money Group. She leads the product, design and editorial teams that produce the financial news, guides, calculators, and other resources on money.com. Melissa’s personal and professional mission is to empower people to take control of their finances and help them live richer in every sense of the word.

Prior to Money Group, Melissa worked at Google, starting her career as a paid search marketer and later moving into a more product-focused role where she got certified to teach Google's Sprint Master Academy, a methodology for rapid prototyping and testing, and went on to train over 300 product professionals on the methodology world-wide.

She graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a Bachelors Degree in Spanish and Japanese and later got her Masters from Carnegie Mellon University in product and service design.

When not at the office, she volunteers as an equine therapist for children with special needs and is a financial coach for a non-profit called Savvy Ladies, which is dedicated to providing basic financial literacy to women in need. She currently resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she learned to kite surf and enjoys running on the beach. "