Melon Yeshoalul
Chief Human Resources Officer, V2X
Melon Yeshoalul leads HR at V2X, partners with the business to solve problems, anticipates needs, and acts with integrity. She’s transforming HR at V2X into a data-driven function for more than 16,000 employees, unifying recruiting onto one platform, standardizing talent and workforce metrics, automating processes, and responsibly integrating AI to enhance speed, insight and scale.
Under her leadership, V2X has strengthened performance management and pay-for-performance alignment, modernized employee relations and case management, and shifted labor strategy towards proactive, collaborative planning. She is also expanding employee listening, recognition, onboarding, whole-person benefits and centralized HR support.
V2X is also proud that veterans represent 42% of its workforce, and Yeshoalul’s work helps unite those teams around the world to make critical missions possible.
Why Watch
Yeshoalul is repositioning HR from an administrative function into a trusted, data-driven business partner that helps V2X hire the right people faster, operate effectively in complex locations, and anticipate workforce needs across more than 16,000 employees.
This year, she unified recruiting on iCIMS, reduced critical program time-to-hire by 15 days, moved labor negotiations from quick-turnaround responses to 15–18-month planning, expanded AI-enabled automation, scaled enterprise recognition, centralized HR services and championed whole-person benefits.
Fun fact: Yeshoalul is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders, pairing accountability with curiosity and care.