Melissa Merrick

Melissa Merrick is Senior Director of People and Culture for Vincerx and brings with her 10+ years of experience in leading the Human Resources function in small to mid-sized financial services, pharmaceuticals, and SaaS companies. Before joining Vincerx, Ms. Merrick was the Director of Agency Integration and Onboarding at The Liberty Company where she led the integration of 6 brokerage acquisitions. Prior to Liberty, Ms. Merrick was an early employee at Newfront Insurance where she built an onboarding program that captured 82% of the company’s total revenue at 900% legacy speed. Before joining Newfront, Ms. Merrick co-founded Odyssey Therapeutics, a seed-stage computational immunology company focused on creating new therapeutics for patients with multiple sclerosis. Before forming Odyssey, Ms. Merrick was the Head of US Operations for UXPin, where she lead HR policy, employee relations, performance management, and training and development programs for a 150+ person, global SaaS company. Ms. Merrick has also held positions at BioPharmX and JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Ms. Merrick graduated with a BS in Physiology and Neuroscience from UC San Diego.