Meredith Ruble

Meredith Ruble is a Managing Director at Maximus Partners with more than 25 years of experience in financial management, investment banking, strategic leadership, and business growth. She has worked with venture-backed startups, private equity-backed education companies, and organizations focused on expansion. Throughout her career, she has helped raise more than $150 million in debt and equity across eleven capital rounds and supported important merger and acquisition transactions.

Meredith has developed a career focused on clear analysis, financial planning, and operational improvement. She works with leadership teams, investors, and internal departments to help companies manage change and improve performance. Her experience includes creating reporting tools, building performance analytics, supporting integrations, and identifying ways to improve business processes. She has used these skills to help companies align finance with operations.

Meredith currently serves at Maximus Partners, where she works with private equity investors and executive teams. Her role draws on her background in investment banking and her years of experience as a chief financial officer. She helps growth-oriented organizations strengthen financial operations, improve internal systems, and prepare for scale. Her work has focused on education, services, technology, and investment banking.

Meredith began her professional career in 1993 at CMS Companies in Philadelphia. She worked first as an Analyst and later as a Senior Analyst. In 2000, she joined Stifel Financial Corporation and held several positions within the Education Group, including Associate, Vice President, Principal, and Managing Director. Her work focused on investment banking transactions involving education operating companies and education technology service businesses.

Meredith later served as Corporate Development Advisor and Chief Financial Officer at Noodle Partners PBC in New York. She supported capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and strategic planning. During her time there, she helped guide a shift from managing third-party vendors to providing broader services to universities. The company grew from $1 million to more than $90 million in revenue. She also helped complete four acquisitions and supported funding rounds that raised $120 million.

Meredith also worked as Chief Financial Officer at Noodle Companies LLC from 2017 to 2019. She helped rebuild accounting systems, improve financial processes, and develop forecasting, budgeting, and reporting tools. Her work supported several independent businesses, including Noodle Markets, Noodle Partners, Noodle.com, and Noodle Pros. She also managed back-office functions across finance, accounting, legal, human resources, and IT.