Jake Leslie Melville is Partner and Managing Director with Boston Consulting Group Consulting Group based in London. He has participated in many oil and gas projects and has worked extensively in West Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Russia. He has also worked for the US utility company Dominion Resources and before that for Capel Cure Myers. Melville was Non-Executive Director of the Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust and Erica, a UK-based wind farm development company. He has an MBA from the Wharton Business School and a BA from the University of Edinburgh. In 2009, Melville received the Badge of Honour for his work with the British Red Cross.