Maya Desai
Maya leads Meridian's commercial value creation mandates across portfolio companies, working directly on pricing, commercial process redesign, and revenue productivity. She is most often brought in when a sponsor needs operating cadence, not just strategy: tightening the weekly business rhythm, translating diligence into action, and building repeatable commercial systems that scale.
Before Meridian, she was a Partner at McKinsey, where she advised PE-backed and public companies on growth transformation and operating model redesign. Earlier, she led category strategy and revenue management at PepsiCo across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, and she spent time inside a scaled industrial platform helping professionalize go-to-market execution. Her perspective was sharpened in sponsor-facing work, where she supported diligence, integration planning, and 100-day value creation.
In one multi-site platform integration, she helped reset pricing governance and sales accountability, contributing to a double-digit margin expansion within two quarters. The lesson stuck: value creation has to survive the Monday morning meeting.
Maya holds an MBA from Kellogg.