Melissa Garcia is a Founding Partner at Collective Entertainment. As a talent manager and consultant, she develops careers and strategizes marketing initiatives in order to leverage her clients’ brands to grow their audiences.

Since 2011, she’s worked with numerous clients and companies across the music, sports, and skydiving industries as a project manager, day-to-day manager, tour manager, marketing/social media consultant, and marketing generalist. From 2020-2022, she served as Chief Marketing Officer for nonprofit organization #iVoted Festival where she worked with a team of over 200 volunteers to produce the largest digital concert in history, all in support of voter turnout.

Melissa is an alumnus of NYU’s Music Business graduate program. She is a musician at heart having studied flute, piano, and carillon at the University of Florida. Beyond music, she’s a certified yoga instructor, a licensed skydiver through the United States Parachute Association, and certified SCUBA diver.