H. Melvin Ming

Chief Operating Officer

Mel Ming coordinates and aligns the efforts of the Workshop with the Workshop's stated strategic direction and short-term goals. This requires communication of operating plans among the management team, such that unity of purpose and process is achieved. Mel oversees the content, product licensing, research, and communications and business strategies of the Workshop.

Prior to joining the Workshop's management team in 1999, Ming was the Chief Financial Officer of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York from 1997 to 1999, Chief Operating Officer at WQED Pittsburgh from 1994 to 1996, and from 1984 to 1994, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at Thirteen/WNET New York. From 1983 to 1984, Ming served as Vice President, Finance and Administration at National Public Radio in Washington, DC.

Ming, a CPA, spent his early business career with Coopers and Lybrand in Philadelphia and Washington DC, after graduating from Philadelphia's Temple University.