Melanie Grant JD

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Biography

Ms. Melanie Grant is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at 2ndGenPartners. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member at Steward Asset Management. She advises the Steward team across key initiatives as well as areas opportune for the deployment of the firm's strategy. She is responsible for originating and evaluating investment opportunities as well as structuring and negotiating transactions. Before forming 2ndGenPartners, she served as an operating partner and a trusted strategic growth advisor to four family-owned enterprises in the lower middle markets, two funded by private equity and four self-funding enterprises. Prior solopreneur, she served as assistant general Counsel at Aramark, an international food services business, and as CXO at Burlington Stores, post-take-private by Bain Capital which exited via IPO in 2013, before gaining valuable operational and counseling experience as an M&A, securities, and restructuring attorney at Morgan Lewis in Philadelphia and in organization and reputation management from Goldman Sachs in New York. She has been a trusted adviser to publicly traded corporate boards, family, and institutional private equity-owned businesses throughout her career. She earned her JD from UVA and her BA from Rutgers College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and served as student body president. She currently serves as a Trustee of the Virtua Healthcare Foundation and on the advisory board of the School Improvement Partnership.