Christine Aquino

As Director of Finance at Village Capital, Melissa works on finance, accounting, and reporting activities for Village Capital.

She’s particularly passionate about integration of finance with organizational strategy and ensures that Village Capital has the systems and procedures in place to support and grow its impactful programs and practice areas around the world.

A talent for seeing the big picture and executing on details has enabled Melissa to have unique experiences in corporate strategy, investment portfolio management, technology commercialization, operations and finance for startups, and venture and angel capital funding. She is a trusted advisor and partner of business leaders and has held leadership roles in organizations ranging from not-for-profit to Fortune 500 companies.

Melissa serves entrepreneurial ecosystems as an investment committee member of the Launch Tennessee Innovation Capital Continuum Fund and coaching entrepreneurs as they grow their companies.