Management Team

	Sandy Sanderson, Founder sandys@meridianer.com, cell: 415-860-3063 Sandy has more than thirty-five years of engineering, marketing, and recruiting experience in high tech industry. He was a Technology Founder of Kinetics, Inc. and held senior positions at National Semiconductor, Teradyne, and Novell. He has an extensive background in executive search, team building, and corporate process development. His background also includes raising $20M+ in first- and second round funding from private placements and venture capital firms. He studied Electrical Engineering at The University of California, Berkeley.
	Alena Pierce, J-Square Consulting alenap@meridianer.com, cell: 408-205-0015 Meridian is pleased to partner with Alena and J-Square in supporting technical engineering team development. Bring over ten years of technical recruiting Alena enhances the Meridian model with placement of high demand Software and Hardware Development Engineering staff. "We are very pleases with the addition of Alena's group. J-Square bring a strong and complimentary range of engineering recruiting to our executive search model that greatly extends our ability to support our early stage technology clients." (Sandy Sanderson)
	Claudia Lindquist, Senior Recruiter claudia@meridianer.com, cell: 510-687-1122 Claudia has more than twenty-five years of experience in operations and process management, high tech recruiting, and venture development. She is a graduate of Stanford University, Co-Founder of TechniQuest, and a regular speaker with professional societies and trade organizations. Claudia specializes in recruiting senior scientist, PhD, and other technical candidates. She also provides consulting resources to scientist and doctoral organizations to support their organizational communications efforts.