Melissa Boulan is the Chief People Officer of Altus Power. Prior to joining Altus, Melissa was the Chief of Staff at Vatera Holdings, a large family office with a healthcare venture capital arm. In her role at Vatera, Melissa led the firm’s human resource efforts and worked on a range of business management and operational issues including special projects across the organization to improve processes, implement best practices and reduce costs. Before joining Vatera, she was the first Head of Human Resources for Viking Global Investors where she helped institutionalize the firm by designing and implementing various processes around talent, performance and development. Prior to Viking, Melissa spent almost ten years at Goldman Sachs in investment and operational capacities including as Business Unit Manager of Goldman’s Private Investment Area within the Merchant Bank, a Franchise Manager of the Global Special Situations Group within the Fixed Income Division and as an Investment Banker in the Real Estate Group. Prior to Goldman, she began her career at Coopers & Lybrand where she was promoted to a Senior Tax Associate. Melissa received her B.S. from Providence College and her MBA from Columbia Business School.