Mell Monroe's Biography

Education

• BS, Business/Education/Marketing - Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ - 1976

Professional Work Experience

• Entrepreneur - Execusearch - 15 yrs owner of an executive search and job placement firm - technology specialization, marketing and sales management disciplines.

Former Work Experience

• Corporate Experience : Johnson & Johnson, Mobil, Coca Cola, GE - 12 yrs - - Sales, Management

• High School Teacher of Business - Jersey City NJ - 2 yrs

Community Leadership Experience - Highlights

• Founder/past President - Bronzeville Area Residents and Commerce Council- BARCC

• BARCC - 2 yrs (Recruited all 18 bd members- solid team of diverse residents made up of renters, homeowners, condo owners and families with children); outreach is 1000+ residents.

• Founder/past President - Greater South Loop Association- GSLA

• GSLA- 3 yrs (Established GSLA as the go-to CBO for real estate development and approval with outreach of 3,000+ residents today.

• Member of several boards that supported our public schools, parks, homeless and fatherhood venues.

Personal Background

Mell, and his wife Angie, live in Bronzeville, and have lived there for 5 years, after moving from the South Loop. Mell describes Angie as" his rock, with whom everything is possible". They have lived on the Southside for over 9 years.

Mell was born in 1954 in Montclair, N.J. He is the seventh of nine children raised by a single mom who worked as a domestic and cared for her children. Mell became an activist in high school when he organized his classmates to raise funds to create a teen activity center at a local Salvation Army center. After graduating from high school, Mell studied business and earned a B.S. degree in 1976 from Rider University in Lawrenceville, a suburb of Trenton, N.J.

Mell taught High School for two years in Jersey City, NJ, focusing on business subjects. He then moved to the corporate arena where he worked in various sales management and marketing positions with Johnson & Johnson, Mobil Chemical, Coca Cola and General Electric. After relocating to Chicago, Mell founded and is the principal owner of Execusearch, a search firm specializing in finding career opportunities for African-Americans, Latinos, women and members of other groups that are historically underrepresented in management and professional jobs. In his 15 years with Execusearch, Mell has placed more than 200 professionals with companies such as Apple Inc., SBC Ameritech, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

Selected as a Local School Council board member for the Douglas/Pershing School, 3200 S. Calumet, and was a co-founder of the South Loop Education Alliance. He is a member of the National Fatherhood Initiative.

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