Melissa Greco is a seasoned marketing and communications strategist who has worked with both large enterprise and late stage startup to build and shape an empathy-based approach to strategic markets, particularly the developer community. She believes that a culture of cross-functional teaming, transparency, fast-paced collaboration and a bias for action is the ideal environment for success.Melissa specialized in Cloud and AI across product, partner, and industry marketing at IBM for nearly eight years. Her time there included a brief consulting assignment in the Philippines in 2016, and supporting the creation of a new developer advocacy group in 2017. Most recently, Melissa joined Slack, leading developer product marketing.Melissa holds a B.A. in Journalism and Spanish. Hailing from New York, she moved to San Francisco nearly three years ago and hasn’t looked back since.