Melanie Steiner

Melanie is an independent board director and founder and CEO of the Inspirion Group, where she advises complex global organizations on risk, strategy and accelerating ESG transformation. Her general management, advisory and board experience span multiple sectors including Retail, Apparel, Industrial, CPG, Healthcare, Technology and Financial Services, with outsized strength in D2C and the digitization of retail.

In addition to her CEO role, Melanie sits on the board of US Ecology Inc. (NASDAQ: USEC), a leading North American provider of environmental and waste services based in Idaho. She is faculty at Digital Directors Network (DDN), an organization dedicated to improving digital and cybersecurity risk oversight in the corporate boardroom, and World 50, a private community for senior executives to collaborate, and share ideas and solutions.

Previously, Ms. Steiner spent nearly a decade as the Global Chief Risk Officer for PVH Corp. based in New York, owner of iconic brands Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein among others. In this role, Melanie managed various strategic functions including ESG, cybersecurity, enterprise risk management and crisis management during a time of intense global retail disruption and succeeded in shifting the organization into a digital, sustainable and consumer-first model. Earlier in her career, she was a lawyer and Big 4 management consultant, during which time she founded and built out the climate change and sustainability practice at EY Canada. Melanie has a LL.B. (J.D) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and a LL.M. in environmental law from the University of London, UK.