Meridian

We have built, run, acquired and sold businesses ourselves.

That matters because the work is rarely theoretical. It is practical, time-sensitive and tied to real commercial pressure.

Daniel Deak

Co-founder & Partner

Daniel Deak

The hardest part of leadership isn’t the big decisions. It is the thousand tiny details that start to overwhelm and pull you away from your mission.

I’ve lived that drift. I know how it feels when it seems like you’re the only one holding the business together while trying to keep up forward momentum.

My approach is rooted in a true partnership. I step into the operational trenches with you and apply a level of rigour and detail that most people find exhausting.

I don't do this just for the sake of being thorough. I do it because that is what it takes to make you unburdened.

When you know the details are being handled with absolute precision, you are free to lead with the same conviction you had on day one.

Alexander Lower

Co-founder & Partner

Alexander Lower

In most businesses, the challenge isn’t one thing. It sits across multiple layers at once.

There is the day-to-day reality of running the business.
And there is how that business holds up when it is looked at closely from the outside.

Both matter. And both need to work.

My focus is on the latter.

I operate across the joins — between technical teams and investors, between operations and commercial reality, and between what a business says it is and what it actually is under scrutiny.

I’ve spent a lot of time in situations where those gaps matter. Transactions, restructures, and periods where the business is being tested.

The work starts with precision.

Understanding how the business really works.
What stands up, what doesn’t, and what needs to change.
Then doing the work to close that gap properly.

Because perception does matter.

Investors, buyers and counterparties make decisions based on what they see and what they understand.
If the story and the substance don’t align, value is lost.

The role I play is to make sure they do.