Melissa Anderson

Anderson is the current Chair of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional association. Prior to joining Albemarle, she was Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Human Resources Officer at Duke Energy, and before that held the role of Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Domtar Corporation. She also spent 17 years with IBM, with her final role being Vice President of Human Resources of Global Financing.

In her new role, Anderson's responsibilities will include leading the execution of the Human Resources strategic plan, partnering with Executive and Senior Leadership teams to establish and implement key HR initiatives, and achieving HR objectives and approaches with an emphasis on business partnerships, talent acquisition and development, compensation and benefits, inclusion and diversity programs, and HR operations.