Melanie read Music, Italian and Welsh at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (BA Hons) and Music at the University of Oxford (M Phil), specialising in early music. She worked at Glerum Auctioneers in The Hague as a Music Expert before joining Harold Holt in 1995 as Assistant Artist Manager. She became an Associate Director in 2016. Her hobbies include piano, bassoon, swimming, cycling, spinning, running, learning Spanish, hot curries and drinking good wine.