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Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom and the CEO of SUSE. She is also the first female CEO of SUSE.

Career
Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato became one of the few woman software developers who were working on enterprise resource planning system, R3, being developed by SAP at the time. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the Chief Operating Officer of SAP for its ERP division.

In mid 2019, Di Donato was appointed as the CEO of SUSE becoming the first female CEO at SUSE. She is noted to have led a major change in the corporate culture including starting mentoring programs.

She was also the 2018 recipient of the Digital Masters Award by the Up Group. She has been named as "The Personality of the Year UK for Cloud Computing", ranked among "Top 10 most influential women in UK technology" for many years and was awarded the "Technology Woman of Achievement" award by Women in the City. She has been awarded the "Women in Tech forum" award.

Di Donato is a Non-Executive Director of Burgundy Technology Corp, and an Advisory Board Member of Capri Ventures. Additionally, she is the Chair of the Technology Group of the 30% Club, an advisory board member of Everywoman. and an executive in residence at Notion Capital. She is also the founder of the Inner Wings the foundation and is the author of three children's books.