MELISSA DAVIS
Melissa Davis has over 20 years of experience building B2B2C platforms, connecting businesses of various size and scale to the world's best consumers. Most recently she was the Global Head of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer at Afterpay, where she built the North America sales and marketing team from the ground up and led a global sales organization of over 400 people. Her responsibilities included acquiring, retaining, and growing relationships with hundreds of thousands of retailers and partners across the globe, setting the global sales strategy, while expanding to new channels and building new revenue streams. She successfully led the company to becoming the leading buy now pay later platform with over 20 million customers and a successful acquisition by Block for $29B. Melissa currently sits on the board of three companies breaking new ground with innovative B2B and B2C technologies, while also consulting for multiple start-ups in the retail and fintech space.
Prior to joining Afterpay, Melissa was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of ShopStyle, where for over 9 years she built the business into one of the leading fashion search engines in the United States, working closely with many of the largest fashion retailers in the country. There she was responsible for the company’s on-trend management, partnerships with over 1,000 retailers worldwide, as well as ShopStyle Collective, an influencer network with more than 14,000 members and proprietary social shopping technology.
Melissa has over a decade of digital media and commerce experience starting from early in her career where she served as Director of Business Development at CNNMoney.com, managing strategic partnerships for digital content distribution and heading up new technology integrations. Prior to that she brought her skills to The Knot, a lifestage media and commerce company, focusing on its registry business unit in her role as senior manager of business development. Melissa began her career as an IT specialist for IBM after earning a BBA in management information systems at the University of Texas at Austin.