Melissa Price

Melissa Price

Melissa Price is a recognized business leader with over 20 years of experience in financial management, organizational development, multi-site operations and facilities management with a proven track record of fostering innovation and organizational growth while driving company culture and vision. 

Today, Melissa serves as the VP of Global Business Development at Spatial, pioneering design with audio at the forefront. Before Spatial, Melissa served as President of AIREA Detroit’s premier Haworth Dealership, creating connections through furniture.  Melissa was also named Director of Strategy – Advisor for Leon Speakers in Ann Arbor, serving as an advisor to the Board and Executive team on strategic account development with clients such as Ford, Apple and Shinola. 

From 2013 to 2018 Melissa was CEO and cofounder of POPHouse (formerly dPOP) a commercial interior design firm in Detroit, where she drove impressive growth with a team who created award winning spaces for culture driven clients. 

Immersive Audio Transforms the Retail Experience at the Speed of Sound

It’s been long established that music has the power to stir emotion and influence consumer behavior. In 1973, business professor Philip Kotler first addressed the science of sound in retail when he coined the term “atmospherics” for the practice of designing store environments to project a specific image and induce certain behaviors. In an article…