Melissa came to broking as a second career, with a law degree and years running Australian fashion retailers, Josh Goot and Leona Edmiston. In 2013 she joined the commercial and asset finance brokerage her father John Macalyk established in 1988, built her name in the market's most demanding territory, and now leads the firm as Managing Director.

 

The industry noticed: the only woman on MPA's Top 10 Commercial Brokers list in 2021, then Commercial Broker of the Year and Commercial Finance Broker of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards, 2022 and 2025. She now also sits on the MFAA's board as a Non-Executive Director, and in 2026 joined the board of ASX-listed property group Desane Group Holdings.

 

Every enquiry to AAA reaches Melissa personally, and every client gets her and the team she has selected around her. Her specialism is the whole capital structure: advising developers across full project lifecycles, structuring lending across entities and trusts, and knowing which of more than forty lenders genuinely suits a deal.

 

Her experience spans residential lending, commercial finance, development funding and private credit, particularly for borrowers that traditional lenders struggle to service. When a bank can't move fast enough for a complex borrower, she has the private banking relationships to get the deal done. She works with clients the way she describes it herself: as a partner in the next twenty years, not the next transaction.