Thomas P. Melcher

Thom Melcher is Glenmede’s Director of Family Wealth. In this role, Mr. Melcher leads Glenmede’s wealth management practice for entrepreneurial clients and multi-generational ultra-high-net-worth families, including the development and management of customized and comprehensive planning, advisory and investment management services.

Mr. Melcher is a member of Glenmede’s Private Wealth leadership team, a voting member of the Investment Policy Committee and a member of the Private Wealth Operating Committee.  In addition, Mr. Melcher serves as a primary point of contact for Glenmede’s strategic alliance with Stonehage Fleming.

Prior to joining Glenmede, Mr. Melcher devoted two and a half decades to PNC, where he most recently served as EVP and Chief Investment Officer (CIO), for the PNC Asset Management Group. Prior to that, he was the Managing Executive for Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth, where he built the practice into one of the nation’s largest providers serving ultra-high net worth clients. Previously, Mr. Melcher held the CIO role for PNC Wealth Management in Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.  Mr. Melcher’s media presence includes appearances on CNBC, citations in the Financial Press and extensive quotations in “The Family Office Book,” written by Richard Wilson. Mr. Melcher also authored the foreword to “Sell Like A Team” by Michael Dalis and was twice recognized as one of the nation’s “Top 100 Wealth Advisors” by Worth Magazine.

Mr. Melcher earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has pursued graduate work at Drexel University in investment management.

Mr. Melcher is a corporate council member of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, co-chair of the Next Generation Council of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and a board member of the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C.