Melissa James, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
James runs the Relationship Lending Business in Morgan Stanley’s Loan Products Group, where she is responsible for managing over $25 billion in loan commitments.
Before she became a managing director, James headed the company’s industrial origination effort, where she helped raise billions in capital for corporate clients and worked on complex transactions, including the first domestic yen issuance for General Electric Capital Corp., the first global bond for DuPont, and the $4 billion initial public offering of Agere Systems.
She is also a member of the firm’s Capital Commitment Committee. James joined Morgan Stanley as a Financial Analyst in 1985 after graduating from Yale College and returned in 1989 after receiving her MBA from Harvard Business School.
