Melissa Jordan Grey

Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder at NewBlue

Melissa Jordan Grey brings decades of experience as a creative technologist, market strategist, entrepreneur & digital media artist. As co-founder of NewBlue, her mission to merge arts & technology is woven through the company’s innovative offerings. Before launching NewBlue, Grey served as a senior program manager in Microsoft’s Digital Media, Consumer, and Windows divisions, specializing in product design, marketing and business development. After earning a degree in media studies at Indiana University (Phi Beta Kappa/Summa Cum Laude), she received an International Radio & Television Society Summer Fellowship and later attended the University of Southern California’s master’s program in cinema-television before leaving to found her first company, The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks. At Blue Ribbon, Grey served as its president before its ultimate acquisition by Microsoft Corporation.