Investment Team - Melissa Bradley

Melissa Bradley
Director of Investments
Melissa Bradley joined CIT in 2006 as director of Investment Services with an extensive background in investing and entrepreneurship. At CIT, Bradley is responsible for sourcing and conducting due diligence on companies, closing investment transactions and maintaining board-level relations with portfolio companies in support of CIT’s GAP Funds.  Prior to CIT, Bradley was founder and managing director of New Capitalist™. In this role she facilitated over $20MM in private equity transactions for seed stage companies, generated an average of 20 percent return on behalf of investors, and created proprietary investment vehicles instrumental in capital sourcing for minority-owned firms. Bradley is also the founder of Positive Impact™ - a collaborative initiative to promote diverse voices and visions within independent media launched at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. As part of this initiative Bradley authored “Introduction to Media Investing for the Creative and Investment Communities” - a practical step by step “how to” guide designed to give media makers detailed instructions on prospecting, receiving, managing and returning an investment. Bradley sits on the board of Social Venture Network, Tides Network and Tides Foundation and is a Board of Governor at Georgetown University. Bradley’s educational background includes graduation from Georgetown University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the School of Business, and a Master’s in Business Administration in Marketing from American University.