ZEIC Senior Leadership

Melina is a professional engineer with over two decades of public and private sector experience.  She has a long-standing dedication to sustainability, innovation, leadership development and collaboration across sectors and disciplines.  In the private sector, Melina worked as a green building project consultant and a Built Green certified residential builder with a special interest in passive house methods. In the public sector, Melina has held leadership roles with the City of Vancouver related to sustainability, climate mitigation and adaptation, green building policy, green Infrastructure planning and implementation and transportation planning.  Most recently, Melina and her team led Vancouver's ambitious and multi-award-winning Rain City Strategy, a transformative, cross-departmental urban rainwater management initiative.

 In 2020, Melina was named Water Steward of the Year by the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association for her leadership and impact in the Canadian Water industry.  In 2021, Melina received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Environmental Sustainability. 

Melina has a graduate certificate in Values-based Leadership from Royal Roads University and an MA in Leadership specializing in Executive Leadership and change management.