Meet The Team

Micah Porter is President and CEO of Minerva Planning Group, a CFA charterholder, and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner. He began work at Minerva in 2003 with extensive experience in business planning and corporate finance. Micah enjoys working together with individual clients to formulate, implement and update their comprehensive financial plans. Additionally, as a CFA charterholder, he is responsible for establishing and implementing Minerva’s overall investment strategy and managing client portfolios. Micah is a NAPFA Registered Financial Advisor.

Prior to arriving at Minerva, Micah held various positions at XO Communications, a telecommunications startup. While at XO, he was responsible for business planning and product development for the Midwest Region. He later moved to the national sales organization, where he was a top performer and Sales Director of the Year for 2000.

Prior to working at XO, Micah worked at BMG International, a multi-billion dollar entertainment conglomerate with offices in over 40 countries worldwide. Micah was the Executive Assistant to the President, and in that position he was responsible for financial reporting including authoring the annual report for the division and strategic planning. Based on his recommendations, the company launched multi-million dollar expansions in both the international video game and home video markets. Micah assumed responsibility for the launch of these divisions in Spain, Portugal and Latin America and also managed the company’s interest in a joint-venture Latin music channel based in Caracas, Venezuela.

Micah received his Masters in International Business with a financial focus from the University of South Carolina in 1993, and graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College of the University of South Carolina in 1991. He still speaks a bit of German along with some Spanish. He lives in Decatur with his wife Jennifer, daughter Ellison, two cats, assorted fish and a snail.

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Amy is our associate advisor and a Certified Financial Planner®. Amy’s background was not the traditional financial services background when she came to Minerva in 2017. Before starting a family, she had been the Associate Director of a governance research program at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to that she spent two years working on economic development in Bujumbura, Burundi. She has also worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and the European Commission’s delegation to the U.N. in New York. Amy was born in Brussels to British parents and grew up in Belgium before going to the U.K. for university. She has a B.A. in Economic and Social Studies, and a Master’s in International Development, both from the University of Manchester. She lives in Atlanta with her architect husband James, children Luke and Sophie, and two cats. Amy loves hiking, skiing, camping, reading and running (slowly--it's more of a jog really).

Melanne is our Client Service Associate, and in that role her responsibilities include generating account paperwork, scheduling meetings and responding to client requests. Prior to joining Minerva, she worked for a large investment advisory firm for over 20 years in a variety of roles and she has a degree in accounting from Ohio State.

Melanne lives in Nashville with her husband Shad and her cat Ruby who has a habit of snoring loudly.

Chris is responsible for paraplanning at Minerva, and he also advises clients from his former firm. He is a Certified Financial Planner ® and lives in Durham with his wife and two children.

When he's not busy working or judging swim meets, you might find him with his family at Disney or on a Disney cruise. He will, on request, wear mouse ears to a meeting.