Team
Dr. Daniel T. Carraway
CEO & Founder
Daniel Carraway, Founder and CEO of Meredian, Inc., has behind him fifteen years of creating value through new products and processes. He is a graduate of Mississippi State University with a B.S. in Forestry and an M.S. in Plant Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Georgia and attended Columbia University Graduate School of Business’s Core MBA Program in Marketing Management. Daniel is the inventor or co-inventor of over twenty patents and pending patents. He also possesses unique strengths in developing technology portfolios and business strategies for new products.
S. Blake Lindsey
President & Founder
Blake Lindsey, Founder and President of Meredian, Inc., has three decades of sales, marketing, and production management experience. Blake has been successful in managing diverse and complicated global supply chains. In addition, he has expertise in new business development, sales management, supply chain optimization, production efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Blake has managed large groups in multiple locations supporting a wide range of internal and external requirements. His education includes undergraduate studies at the University of Arkansas, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration, and post-graduate education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
Michael Smith
Vice-President of Manufacturing
Michael Smith, Meredian’s Vice-President of Manufacturing, has over twenty years of manufacturing experience, alongside continuous process-improvement expertise. Before coming to Meredian, Michael held high-level manufacturing positions within Ingersoll Rand, Amoco, and British Petroleum. His specialties include driving continuous-process improvements through the use of lean manufacturing techniques and Six Sigma tools. At the Georgia Institute of Technology Michael received a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also trained at the University of Tennessee and the Juran Institute in Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma. In addition, Michael received training in Lean Manufacturing and Toyota Production System from Simpler Consulting.
Phil Van Trump
Director of Process Development
Phil Van Trump, Director of Process Development for Meredian, spent twelve years in leadership of supply-chain and logistic businesses, where he was responsible for North American business unit operations, corporate education, business analysis, customer service and sales management serving as a vice-president prior to his work with Meredian. Additionally, he was responsible for the conversion of legacy enterprise software to a purpose-built system, managing operations and finance and re-engineering a freight-flow network that handles more than 100,000 transactions concurrently. His education includes undergraduate studies at the University of Central Florida, where he received a B.S. in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, graduate coursework at the University of Central Florida and Georgia State University conducting research in Proteomics and Molecular Biology as well as continuing education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his current role he is responsible for Research and Development, Process Development and Regulatory Affairs.