Melissa Ruth

VP, Operations

Melissa Ruth is VP, Operations at Formative. She is responsible for managing the internal infrastructure, financials, and people resources for the agency. Melissa loves to help organizations scale-up, including Liquid Agency, Innovative Services NW, and Salt & Straw. Earlier in her career Melissa spent over a decade managing global retail and brand campaigns for Microsoft, both as an employee and as a Client Partner at Razorfish.

You'll most likely find Melissa hiking, fly fishing, gardening, or knitting when she isn't working. She somehow also manages to keep two teenagers, a snake, a bearded dragon, and a pampered poodle alive and well at home in Portland, Oregon.

Melissa holds a BS in Business Economics and German from Willamette University.