meet the board

Melody Martens

Each month, we will be featuring one member of the Excellerate Foundation Board. Our August board member highlight is Melody Martens.

LAST UPDATED • August 2nd, 2021

About Melody

Melody Martens, President of Signature Bank of Bentonville, has been bettering the banking industry for over 27 years and serves alongside us as Board Member at Excellerate Foundation. Currently, she focuses her efforts on our Housing and Hark committees. Melody uses the core tenants of listening and investing in people, not only in banking but in board room decisions.

Before her tenure at Signature Bank, Melody was with Harrison-based Community First Bank since 2002 before accepting her role in Bentonville in 2013. She is passionate about the Northwest Arkansas community, it’s people, and seeing that all have the opportunities to achieve their passions and desires.

It is worth noting that Melody was named to Arkansas’ Power Women in 2019. She currently resides in Bentonville.

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