Melissa Brown Herkt
Melissa Brown Herkt
Civil Engineering, 1977
During a career that began in the mid '70s, Alabama native Melissa Herkt, president of Emerson Process Solutions, has been at the leading edge of the relatively new discipline of project management. With experience in all aspects of international project management in industry sectors ranging from petrochemicals to pharmaceuticals, she is recognized as a leader in organizing and managing resources in a manner that ensures that projects are completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
One of the world's foremost authorities on project management, Herkt has brought an engineer's critical eye for detail, an uncanny ability to see the big picture and the ability to balance the two to each project she has undertaken, all while quietly shattering the glass ceiling that had long kept women out of the nation's corporate suites.
