Melinda J. Newman

Melinda J. Newman is a senior asset management executive with over 20 years of corporate credit investing experience, focusing on cyclicals and resource-intensive sectors such as metals and mining, other materials sectors, energy, industrials, and power and utilities. She has invested extensively in steel producers, service centers, and in iron ore and metallurgical coal miners across the credit spectrum, successfully deploying billions of dollars in the largest North American and European steelmakers and their predecessors. Melinda was a senior portfolio manager at Post Advisory Group, a high yield institutional boutique owned by Fortune 500 member Principal Financial Group, and oversaw assets under management of $12 billion. She also held leadership roles at First Pacific Advisors and at TCW Group, overseeing $15 billion of credit investments.

Her background includes corporate finance, capital markets, leveraged credit, risk management, and financial restructuring, alongside significant experience collaborating with technology teams and focusing on talent development. She has served on public, local government, and not-forprofit boards, currently as an independent director at FRMO Corporation, where she sits on the Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees, and at the RENN Fund, where she serves on the Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Pricing Committees. Melinda is designated as Directorship Certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors, and is actively engaged in corporate governance education initiatives.

She holds an MBA with Honors in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Palmer Scholar), a BA with Honors in General
Scholarship from Wesleyan University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from SUNY Stony Brook.