Our Meridian Exchangers
The Meridian Exchange brings together specialists in growth leadership, international expansion, and organisational execution to support scaling businesses across markets. Behind every service we provide is a dedicated team of professionals, each bringing their unique expertise and enthusiasm to our business.
Nghia Clulee
Operational Transformation
Australia, Vietnam
Adel Alagic
Global Employer of Record
Australia
Kathryn Read
International Consultant
Europe- Asia
Callum Taylor
Offshore Talent
Philippines
Cynthia Dearin
Global Advisory
APAC, EMEA, US
Julius Sui
South East Asia Talent
Malaysia
Michelle Solomon
HR & Payroll Solutions
Australia, SG
Mary Soriano
Outsourcing
Philippines
Jishnu Podwal
Business Set up
India
Stephanie Ruiz
Data Analytics
Philippines
Nik Eqiehafizie
Recruitment Lead
Malaysia
Aileen Bancale
Talent Sourcing
Philippines
About The Meridian Exchange
More than 25 years ago, I arrived in Australia from France with a simple ambition to build meaningful connections, create opportunities, and grow through people and experiences across borders.
My trajectory began in hospitality and operational excellence before evolving into leading high-stakes B2B sales, marketing, and global workforce ecosystems.
Throughout this multi-industry journey, my mission has remained razor-sharp: dismantling the operational and regional silos that hold companies back, and empowering high-growth SMEs to scale sustainably by connecting the right people, capabilities, and markets.
Global Commercial & Growth Leadership
Gerald operates across APAC, EMEA, and the United States, helping organisations scale beyond founder-led selling into structured, repeatable growth systems.
Known for a people-centred yet execution-driven leadership style, he combines empathy with commercial discipline. His strength lies in building trust quickly, aligning stakeholders, and turning complexity into clear, executable direction.
Across SaaS, professional services, HR tech, and global workforce ecosystems, Gerald is engaged when organisations need to stabilise performance, modernise their commercial engine, or expand into new markets.
Building Scalable Commercial Systems
His work focuses on transforming fragmented or underperforming commercial functions into structured growth systems.
This includes rebuilding outbound engines, strengthening partner ecosystems, improving forecasting discipline, and designing go-to-market strategies that enable scalable expansion across regions.
His approach integrates consulting-led sales, operational design, and ecosystem development to ensure teams can execute independently and consistently.
Measurable Commercial Impact
Across APAC and EMEA engagements, Gerald has delivered outcomes including:
- Predictable pipeline development across multiple regions
- Improved qualification, forecasting accuracy, and deal velocity
- Stronger delivery alignment and reduced operational leakage
- Activation of partner ecosystems to accelerate market entry
- Cross-border expansion frameworks used by leadership teams and founders
His focus is always the same: build systems that scale without dependency on individual heroics.
Leadership & Team Development
Gerald has led and coached cross-functional teams across sales, operations, and customer success, supporting performance uplift across distributed global environments.
He has guided teams through restructuring and transformation while maintaining strong retention, reducing attrition, and strengthening leadership capability.
His leadership style is direct, transparent, and human-centred, focused on building cultures where people perform with clarity, accountability, and confidence.
Selected Experience
Gerald has supported organisations across enterprise, government, and high-growth sectors including:
HPE, VMware, Lenovo, Red Hat, SUSE, Hitachi Vantara, Qlik, Experian, Roche Diagnostics, Wolters Kluwer, JLL, Polyglot Group, SocialGen, Business Australia / ACCI, and others.
His work spans SaaS commercialisation, managed services, HR/EOR, infrastructure, energy, and global workforce ecosystems.
Our story: Different paths, same purpose
Discover the journey that led to The Meridian Exchange, a firm built on shared values and a mission to empower global business growth.
Not Once But Twice
We found ourselves working together not once, but twice , in different organisations, solving increasingly complex challenges.
Each time, something became clear. Our strengths were naturally complementary. One of us focused on commercial growth, partnerships, and execution. The other brought structure, governance, transformation, and stakeholder alignment.
Together, strategy became easier to execute. Execution became more sustainable. And teams became more aligned and engaged.
The Problem Was Never Strategy
Over time, a clearer pattern emerged.
Across industries and regions, businesses were not struggling with ideas, they were struggling with execution.
Markets were becoming more complex. AI was reshaping workforce capability. Expansion was accelerating risk. Founders had direction, but lacked capacity. Leadership teams had vision, but were stretched by operational reality.
The constraint was not opportunity. It was execution at scale.
We realised Businesses didn't need another consultant writing another report.
They needed partners who could work inside the challenge , helping leadership teams prioritise, decide, build capability, and create commercial momentum in real time.
Bridging strategy and execution
Today, The Meridian Exchange brings together two complementary disciplines.
Gerald Garcia focuses on commercial growth, partnerships, market expansion, go-to-market strategy, and execution systems.
Nghia Clulee specialises in transformation, governance, stakeholder engagement, operating models, and leadership alignment.
Different paths. Shared values. One mission.
Our Mission
To bridge the gap between strategy and execution , helping leadership teams expand into new markets with clarity, confidence, and the capability to execute.
Because international growth is not just about entering markets.
It is about building organisations capable of succeeding within them.
