Melanie Grace - Hercules Capital Executive

HCXY Stock  USD 25.02  0.03  0.12%   

Executive

Ms. Melanie Grace serves as Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. She has over 18 years of experience representing public and private companies in securities, compliance and transactional matters. Ms. Grace oversees the legal and compliance function for the Company and serves as secretary for the Company and select subsidiaries. For the past three years, Ms. Grace served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of WHV Investments, an investment adviser in San Francisco, California. At WHV, she also served as interim chief compliance officer and sat on numerous committees, including Management, Operations, Proxy and Chair of the Ethics Committee. Prior to Working at WHV, Ms. Grace was the chief counsel at the New York Stock Exchange Euronext, where she worked directly with the general counsel and senior legal staff, advising and delivering assistance in areas from corporate transactions, contracts, regulatory filings and compliance. Before working with NYSE Euronext, she worked as an associate for Fenwick West in Palo Alto, California, where she represented both public and private companies in public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and securities matters. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Grace was an assistant in the Office of the general counsel at FINRA where she assisted on matters including Nasdaq delistings and brokerdealer disciplinary actions since 2015.
Age 51
Tenure 9 years
Phone650-289-3060
Webhttp://www.htgc.com
Grace earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts degree in History from the University of California at Riverside and a Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California and is a designated Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional ®.
Hercules Capital, Inc., formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc., is a business development company specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. Hercules Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Hartford, Connecticut Boston, Massachusetts Elmhurst, Illinois Santa Monica, California McLean, Virginia New York, New York Radnor, Pennsylvania and Washington, District of Columbia. Hercules Capital is traded on BATS Exchange in USA. Hercules Capital (HCXY) is traded on New York Stock Exchange in USA. It is located in 400 Hamilton Avenue and employs 67 people. Hercules Capital is listed under Asset Management & Custody Banks category by Fama And French industry classification.

Hercules Capital Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Hercules Capital's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Hercules Capital inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Hercules. The board's role is to monitor Hercules Capital's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Hercules Capital's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Hercules Capital's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Joseph Hoffman, Independent Director
Brad Koenig, Independent Director
Thomas Fallon, Independent Director
Scott Bluestein, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Director
Melanie Grace, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Secretary
Kiersten Botelho, Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel
Robert Badavas, Independent Chairman of the Board
Pam Randhawa, Director
Doreen Ho, Independent Director
Wade Loo, Director
Seth Meyer, Chief Financial Officer
Carol Foster, Independent Director
Gayle Crowell, Independent Director
Charlie Vandis, Chief Credit Officer
Christian Follmann, Chief Operating Officer

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