The people behind Meridian
A partner network across five countries, supported by an advisory board.
The team
Meridian is built as a partner network. Senior specialists bring their own depth and carry it with Meridian's methodology and accountability. Partners are announced as they join, and delivery is already running in Brazil and the Nordics.
Isabela Bolotti
Founder & CEO
Malmö, Sweden
Strategy, methodology, and client delivery. Eleven years leading AI and digital transformation in life sciences, most of it at Novo Nordisk, where she built a global computer vision AI programme and her team scaled machine learning diagnostics across more than 100 production lines. What she saw there shapes Meridian: the same product can bring five times the value, depending on how people are brought along.
Kainat Shahzad
AI Transformation and Readiness Coach, Life Sciences
Denmark
Pharmacist by background, with hands-on experience in regulatory affairs, quality, and clinical research. Kainat helps pharma, biotech, and medtech organisations understand where they stand with AI, close readiness gaps, and build a path to responsible adoption inside regulated environments. She also coaches leaders and senior professionals one to one, and leads Meridian's presence in the Danish and Nordic life sciences ecosystem.
Luiza Medeiros
Researcher & Strategic Partner, Brazil Deliveries
Minas Gerais, Brazil
A Master's in Psychology and training in software engineering, which is exactly the combination AI transformation needs. Luiza works on the human side of adoption: why people resist new tools, how teams build confidence with unfamiliar technology, and what it takes to change how work actually happens. She leads local delivery in Brazil.
Paulo Miguel Moreira
Strategic Partner, Energy Vertical and Brazil Expansion
São Paulo, Brazil
Paulo leads Rigo Energia, a photovoltaic energy company with more than 12 MWp installed across industrial, rural, and commercial operations. He spent years delivering infrastructure where technical failure has real consequences, and he came to Meridian already applying AI inside his own operations. He leads the energy vertical and Meridian's expansion in Brazil.
To be announced
Chief Technology Officer
Denmark
More partners will be announced as they join.
Advisory board
Meridian's Advisory Board brings together senior expertise across life sciences, enterprise AI architecture, industrial technology, and organisational leadership. The board meets quarterly and provides strategic input on Meridian's direction, methodology, and growth.
Anukool Singh
Advisory Board Member
Anukool leads AI for Science within R&D Industry Solutions Delivery at Microsoft, based in Amsterdam. He drives R&D transformation across pharmaceutical, chemical, materials science, energy, and industrial organisations, applying agentic AI, scientific reasoning systems, and knowledge graphs to accelerate scientific discovery.
Axel van Raath
Advisory Board Member
Axel van Raath is Global Strategy Manager for Vertical Life Sciences at Siemens, based in the Netherlands. He sits on the Life Sciences vertical management team at headquarters, co-leading and challenging global strategy across divisions and regions. He is drawn to the moments where strategy needs to be stress-tested rather than polished. Recipient of the Werner von Siemens Award for customer impact.
Renata Marques
Advisory Board Member
Renata Marques is a senior executive and strategist in biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing, with over twenty-three years of international experience leading teams across four countries. She is the founder of LiderA - Women in Leadership, where she mentors women to lead with clarity, confidence, and authenticity. She speaks regularly at international conferences on leadership, decision-making, and the human side of transformation. Certified by MIT and Oxford.
Advisory board members serve as individuals and do not represent their employers.
AI's greatest gift may be forcing humanity to rediscover what makes us human.
HumanAI: the conviction behind the work
Every Meridian engagement is grounded in a philosophy we call HumanAI. The conviction is simple: AI transformation done well makes organisations more capable and more human at the same time. Not one at the cost of the other.
Human-first, at Meridian, means something specific. It means augmentation over replacement. Leaders as role models. Structured change management that treats people as capable of growth, not as obstacles to progress. And it means giving existing teams the opportunity, tools, and training to evolve before significant structural decisions are made.
This isn't only an ethical conviction, it is the stronger long-term business strategy. The organisations that will thrive in the AI era are the ones that invest in their people, not despite AI, but because of it.
How Meridian is built
Meridian is built as a network that leverages partnerships to increase quality and scalability of deliveries. A core team sets the strategy and methodology and holds accountability for every engagement. Around it, individual partners bring specialist depth, and technology and consulting partners bring sector platforms and domain expertise. The network spans Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, and Brazil, and works in seven languages.
Meridian is built to deliver differently from a traditional consultancy. Engagements are scoped around outcomes rather than hours. A named person is accountable from the first conversation through to delivery. And the methodology is versioned and runs on Meridian's own systems, so the quality of an engagement does not depend on who is in the room.
We believe that one of the key things that cannot be delegated to AI is accountability. At Meridian, a person is accountable for every engagement, always.
We select our partners carefully and hold them to the standard we hold ourselves. Work with Meridian and you work with one team. Meridian Brasil is being established as a local affiliate, with delivery already running through partners in Minas Gerais and São Paulo.
The structure
Meridian Core
Strategy, methodology, accountability and an AI platform.
Individual partners
Specialists across different countries.
Technology partners
Sector specific platforms, systems, digital solutions.
Consulting partners
Domain expertise and clients.
- Presence
- Sweden · Denmark · Netherlands · Spain · Brazil
- Languages
- EN · PT · ES · SV · DA · FR · DE