The commercial engine, run by operators.
Meridian Capital & Portfolio Partners is an embedded operating-partner platform for mid-market private-equity-backed companies. We take direct ownership of the commercial P&L — pricing, quote-to-cash, go-to-market, working capital — and we run repeatable playbooks across portfolios. Typical outcomes: 2–10 pts EBITDA.
Two altitudes. One discipline.
Value creation fails when it lives only in board decks or only in one company's trenches. Meridian works at both levels by design.
Across the portfolio
Repeatable commercial playbooks deployed fund-wide: a commercial diagnostics hub, a pricing calibration and margin-leakage program, a capital-efficiency playbook, and a quarterly value-creation review cadence with heat maps and stage-gated intervention tracking.
Inside the company
Embedded interim CCO and CRO mandates with direct P&L ownership: commercial engine rebuilds, pricing architecture resets, and buy-and-build commercial integration — inside the portfolio company, not advising it from outside.
Returns moved. The role has to move with them.
Extended hold periods and slow exits have made M&A-led growth unreliable. Returns have migrated to the part of the P&L a commercial operator owns. The operating-partner role is shifting from relationship-driven sales support to transformation leadership — pricing, data, systems, and execution discipline. Meridian is built for that shift.
Sponsors and management teams in the operating middle.
Consumer and retail. Multi-site services. Industrial services. Business services. Companies where the commercial engine — pricing, quoting, sales productivity, mix — decides whether the deal thesis holds.