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Melissa Cheong, Head of Investments Melissa Cheong joined Imprint's New York City office in November 2010. Through her work with organizations such as NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, Innosight Ventures, Agora Partnerships, BlueOrchard Finance, Invested Development, Women's World Banking and Technoserve, Melissa has worked with various organizations in the impact investing and international development sectors. Prior to her career as a consultant in the impact investing field, Ms. Cheong was a Vice President in Plainfield Asset Management's Direct Lending and Investing group. In this role, she was responsible for sourcing and executing both domestic and international private equity and debt investments across multiple industry sectors for the $6 billion hedge fund. Prior to that, she was a Senior Associate and founding member of Briscoe Capital Partners, a credit focused hedge fund with approximately $400 million of assets under management. Ms. Cheong was also a Financial Analyst in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance groups at Deutsche Bank in the firm's New York and London offices. Ms. Cheong serves on the Board of Directors of Agora Partnerships, a nonprofit impact investing organization dedicated to helping small and growing businesses fight poverty in poor communities throughout Central America. She is also on the Advisory Board for Invested Development, a social impact angel investor intermediary services firm. Ms. Cheong has a B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where she received the Richter Grant and the North Shore Alumni Fellowships. She also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, with a concentration in Finance and Economics and International Development. |