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Melody Brown is the Vice President of Human Resources at NPower. She has held this role since March 2016. She is responsible for the full scope of HR activities to include HR alignment with business needs, identifying and implementing process improvements, driving positive employee relations, compensation planning, performance management, succession planning, training and development, recruiting and retaining top talent, and driving a high-performance culture.
She has 25 years of experience in the fields of human resources, customer care and corporate social responsibility for Verizon Communications. During that time, she worked on numerous mergers and acquisitions, managed multi-million-dollar programmatic budgets, and spearheaded award-winning corporate responsibility initiatives.
Melody is invested in her community, currently serving on the national board of A Call to Men, and the YWCA of Union County. She was formerly on the board of trustees for the Morris County Urban League, and the advisory board of the Center on Violence Against Women and Children at Rutgers University.