Melissa Stahley is the Chief Marketing Officer of Mirador Software Group. As CMO, Melissa is responsible for overseeing the marketing efforts of Mirador’s business units, as well as managing marketing shared services and corporate internal/external communications. Additionally, she provides operational support in the areas of HR, product management, and sales.
Melissa has over 20 years of experience in B2B marketing for ERP and application software companies, having developed strategies around culture, communication, brand, and marketing for two international, multi-product software groups. She’s also had the opportunity to lead commercial diligence, deal communications and integrations for more than 20 PE-led M&A processes.
Throughout her career, Melissa has held director, vice president, and C-level titles at Forterro and, before that at Consona Corporation (now Aptean) and Indigo Biosystems. In those roles she managed teams responsible for demand generation, corporate communications, business development, product marketing, and HR. While at Forterro, Melissa helped the company grow more than eight-fold, playing a driving role in the development of new business and customer marketing strategies for each of Forterro’s portfolio companies.
Stahley holds a master’s degree in public relations and corporate rhetoric from Purdue University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from the University of Indianapolis. She also has a level III certification in product marketing from the Pragmatic Institute.
