Biography
Melissa L. McCoy, Dallas, graduated summa cum laude from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 with a major in chemical engineering. She then studied entrepreneurship and technology at Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Park in California. At Georgia Tech she founded an organization focused on social entrepreneurial technology and co-founded an organization to solve the problem of post-disaster water scarcity, which was piloted in partnership with the Red Cross in a Chilean town decimated by earthquake. Melissa was also co-founder and COO of another tech company for which she co-invented and patented a digital manufacturing authentication technique.