Melanie Brown

Biography: Melanie Brown is the President & CEO of Restoration 52 LLC (R|52), a South Carolina minority woman owned real estate development firm. Rooted in health, R|52 brings together non-traditional partnerships to develop workforce housing solutions that are intentionally designed to close costly health equity gaps. Prior to launching R|52, Melanie was a Vice President for a Midwest health system with over 20,000 employees, 18 hospitals, 70 clinics, and 100 health and shelter organizations. She had strategic and operational oversight for Advanced Analytics, Clinical Quality Reporting, Pay for Performance Programs (shared & at-risk), and Population Health strategies. Melanie is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) South Carolina and serves as the statewide Chair of Mission Advancement. In the summer of 2021, Melanie was selected into the Global ULI Health Leaders Network Cohort 4. As a returning native to Greenville, SC, Melanie also serves as a board member of the Greenville Local Development Corporation, Community Works CDFI, South Carolina Children's Theatre and as a member of the Greenville Affordable Housing Coalition. In 2006, Melanie received her graduate degree in Health Administration from the Norman J Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2004.