Melina leads marketing, customer experience, and operations for SunShare, managing the customer lifecycle from acquisition through retention. She oversees customer management and back-office operations for more than 8,500 residential subscribers in various financing portfolios. Melina has led the subscriber-facing efforts for all of SunShare’s Minnesota solar gardens, which serve around 7,500 residential subscribers and began producing energy in early 2017. She is thrilled to have been a part of SunShare's achievement of 100 MWs of development, and looks forward to serving thousands more residential subscribers in the next 100 megawatts.

Melina has more than 15 years of marketing experience, most recently in the Telecom industry as Director of Marketing for Cricket Wireless, where she led marketing programs to launch Cricket’s presence in more than 20 new markets, growing its customer base from ~800K to nearly 6MM. She also managed the marketing integration when Cricket was acquired by AT&T to ensure a seamless transition for the customers.

Melina has a degree in Russian Literature and Culture from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.