Melissa Kirk
Vice President, Product Development and Operations

Melissa Kirk serves as Equity Methods’ Vice President of Product Development and Operations and manages all administrative, business technology, telecommunications, wide area networking, local area networking, desktop support, information security, disaster recovery planning, risk management, compliance and software development functions. Ms. Kirk champions IT as a value-added business for Equity Methods. Working with all the company’s groups, Melissa and her team constantly strive to identify opportunities and structure IT solutions to deliver measurable results across the business and to its customers.

Melissa brings with her over 10 years experience in systems development, project management, audit and compliance.  She previously served as Manager, Product Development at Gradient Analytics, Inc. an independent equity research firm, where she was responsible for overseeing all software development, database administration and quality assurance for all products.

Melissa earned a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies/Business and Communications from Arizona State University.