Meridian Management Advisors
An expert, generalist retained executive search and leadership advisory services firm
About Us
Meridian Management Advisors is an independent, retained executive search firm that provides tailored, rigorous, and Founder-led recruiting and assessment solutions across diverse industries, executive management, and functional leadership roles.
What Sets Us Apart
Low volume and high-touch model to ensure each client’s project is executed by the Founder with a singular focus on quality, urgency, depth, diversity, and results.
30 years of completing projects across diverse industries, ownership structures (privately-held to publicly-traded), sizes (small cap to multi-billion), business objectives, management functions, and market dynamics; proven ability to execute broadly and successfully.
Insight, judgment, rigorous and detailed interviewing skills (competency-based) developed and sharpened by years of critically assessing general management, functional leaders, board/advisor candidates.
Conduct real-time, strategic, and thorough market research and candidate sourcing (vs. recycling or repurposing candidates) as well as diligent qualification that produces optimized, effective, and well-aligned results for companies and placed executives.
Founder
Roger Chen founded Meridian Management Advisors in 2012 after accumulating professional services, executive recruiting, organizational management consulting, and financial services industry experiences from global enterprises at Heidrick & Struggles, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Citibank. He also completed executive search projects at private equity-focused and specialized consultancies. He began his retained executive search career in 1996 and has partnered with clients spanning industries, geographies, and solving unique business, operational, and organizational leadership challenges.
"My executive search practice is committed to a high-touch, tailored, rigorous, and detailed approach to ensure ideal alignment of the investor's priorities, company's objectives, functional and organizational needs, management culture, and the executive's ability/fit."