Melanie Kruger is the Chief People Officer at Alloy Partners. With over 20 years of experience in human resources, organization, and talent development, Melanie has built a career focused on dynamic, fast-paced, founder-led companies. She began her career at Accenture in Change Management consulting, but quickly found her niche helping founders navigate each stage of their company’s journey, aligning talent with evolving culture and changing business needs.

Melanie has led the people function for several founder-led companies. As VP of People & Culture at Conga, she oversaw the people strategy during a period of high growth, expanding from 17 to 250 employees, managing a change in ownership, and integrating three acquisitions.

As SVP of People at Techstars, she focused on talent strategy, organization, and people development, spending significant time mentoring and coaching founders in the Techstars portfolio. Prior to joining Alloy Partners, Melanie served as SVP of People at Red Canary, where she led the talent strategy during a critical period of growth, doubling the company's size in six months and helping it cross the $100M ARR milestone after securing Series C investment.

Melanie wakes up every day excited to find new ways to empower the team to do their best work and show up as their best selves. She loves a good coming-of-age story, whether in a book or film, and reads several books a week.