Melissa Hyak

Melissa Hyak is a Singapore-based communications and media professional whose public profile is primarily in journalism, corporate communications, media training, and event moderation, not venture investing. The Media Consultants describes her experience as spanning “the newsroom to the boardroom,” across both B2C and B2B companies.

Earlier in her career, Hyak was a Channel NewsAsia broadcast journalist. The Media Consultants states that she was a permanent anchor for CNA’s night primetime programming and a resident presenter for the current-affairs programs *Talking Point* and *360*. The same profile says she reported from the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Greater China, including work as CNA’s Hong Kong Correspondent. Her earlier media roles also included Disney Club Singapore and Class 95FM’s morning drivetime show.

After leaving full-time media, Hyak moved into corporate communications. Public sources describe her as having led internal and external communications portfolios at B2B and B2C multinationals and handled crisis communications around ratings downgrades, M&A, data breaches, and COVID-19. A third-party company database also lists her under ACR Capital Holdings in a media and communication role, but I found no primary source confirming the stub email or phone number.

Her LinkedIn profile lists CHANEL in her experience and National University of Singapore as her education, with dates shown as 2000-2003. She remains publicly active as a moderator, trainer, and radio/news presenter, including finance and investment-market conversations for MONEY FM 89.3 and private-market/wealth-management events.

• I found no verified primary-source evidence that Melissa Hyak is an angel investor, seed investor, fund manager, or individual who publicly writes checks into startups.
• Public evidence supports a communications/media role rather than an investing role: The Media Consultants positions her around media training, communications counsel, crisis communications, event hosting, and moderation.
• Her finance-adjacent activity appears to be as an interviewer or moderator, not as the capital provider; examples include MONEY FM 89.3 market interviews and Indosuez Wealth Management outlook events.
• No verified check size, investment stage, personal investment thesis, or portfolio strategy was found.