Melissa Plaisance Group Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations, Albertsons Companies Melissa Plaisance is GVP, Treasury & Investor Relations for Albertsons Companies, with responsibility for banking and rating agency relationships, cash management, payments, and investor relations. Previously, Melissa was SVP, Finance & Investor Relations for Safeway Inc. and served as SVP, Finance and Corporate Communications for Del Monte Foods. Prior to joining Safeway, she was a relationship manager with Bankers Trust, where she held positions in New York and San Francisco before becoming a VP in the bank’s leveraged buyout group in Los Angeles. Ms. Plaisance graduated cum laude from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA with a BS in Business Administration and received an MBA from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. Plaisance is a member of the NIRI National Board of Directors, and previously served on the San Francisco Chapter Board of Directors, the Steering Committee of the NIRI Senior Roundtable and as Co-Chair of the NIRI National Conference.