Melissa Latham

Melissa Latham is the President and Managing Director of Global Recruiters of Lowcountry. As a senior retail executive of +35 years, Melissa has an extensive background and expertise in leading both domestic and international businesses. She has held store level, multi-unit and ultimately corporate strategic leadership roles leading entire business units. Her two previous assignments included Vice President of Retail for Vera Bradley and Vice President of North American Retail for Jockey, International. For over 13 years she has played an integral role on senior leadership teams directly serving CEOs. In all of her roles Melissa has been accountable to delivering sales and bottom line profit through excellence in marketing and merchandising, operations and finance and most importantly human resources and talent acquisition. She lives by the principal that people really do make the difference and has always been intentional about sourcing and developing Exceptional Talent.