Melissa Wall, Founder
Marketing with Distinction, LLC
Digital Photo by Phil Monica

Management

Melissa Wall founded Marketing With Distinction, LLC in January, 1996. For twenty years, she has been counseling companies on how to create and implement business-to-business marketing and communications programs.  She also began offering companies executive search and recruiting services six years ago and the business is now split 50/50 between marketing advisory and staffing/executive search. She has a specific expertise in the financial services industry.

Some clients include eSpeed/Cantor Fitzgerald, The Bond Market Association, Jefferies & Company, Russell Reynolds Associates, People's Bank, HP Financial Services (formerly Compaq Capital), Greenwich Capital, Better Packages, Hudson Construction Associates, Cadre Financial Services, AT&T Capital, West LB Asset Management, Westpac, Imagistics International, Notre Dame University, Portfolio Advisors, and Ambac Financial Group.

Prior to opening the firm in 1997, Ms. Wall held several senior corporate positions with NatWest Securities, the U.S. investment banking and securities arm of NatWest Group, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, a former subsidiary of GE Capital, and Midland Montagu, the U.S. corporate and investment banking division of Midland Bank plc (now HSBC).

Ms. Wall was born in England. An American citizen, she has a B.Sc. Degree, Cum Laude, in Marketing and Management from the Stern School of Business at New York University. She also holds a Certificate in Investor Relations from the University of Connecticut.

She is an appointed commissioner for the Oxford Economic Development Commission; has taught marketing at Mercy College in White Plains, New York and at The Women's Business Development Center in Stamford, as has also taught "professional success" at Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut.  Ms. Wall also conducts marketing workshops for small businesses and sits on the Boards of the Oxford Regional Innovation Center and Yankee Entrepreneurial Institute, a business incubator, and the Oxford Economic Development Corporation.

Ms. Wall is also associated with:

Financial Communications Society

British American Business Inc.

Fairfield County Public Relations Association (ex-Board member)

National Investor Relations Institute

International Association of Business Communicators

American Marketing Association

Contact Information:
203-888-9995 business
914-319-3064 cell
melissa@distinctmarketing.com