Meredith Ruble
Managing Director at Maximus Partners, LLC
Meredith Ruble is a Managing Director at Maximus Partners with more than 25 years of experience across financial management, investment banking, corporate development, and strategic leadership. She has worked with growth-stage companies, venture-backed startups, and private equity-supported education businesses. Throughout her career, she has helped raise more than $150 million in debt and equity across eleven capital rounds. She has also supported complex mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and business changes. Her work has centered on helping companies build stronger financial systems, improve operations, and prepare for growth.
Meredith Ruble has built her career through clear analysis, steady collaboration, and practical financial leadership. She has experience working with executive teams, investors, and internal departments to solve business problems and support important initiatives. Her work often includes identifying areas for improvement, building reporting systems, and creating performance analytics that help leaders understand results. She has also helped companies connect financial planning to operating goals, supporting better decisions during periods of growth and transition.
Professional Experience
Meredith Ruble currently serves as Managing Director at Maximus Partners, where she works with private equity investors and executive teams. Her role is supported by fifteen years of investment banking experience and ten years as a chief financial officer. She helps growth-oriented organizations strengthen financial operations, improve planning tools, and manage business priorities. Her work focuses on education, services, technology, and investment banking. These sectors reflect the areas where she has spent much of her career supporting companies as they scale and improve internal structure.
Meredith Ruble began her professional career in 1993 at CMS Companies in Philadelphia. She started as an Analyst and later became a Senior Analyst. These roles gave her early experience in financial review, business analysis, and transaction support. In 2000, she joined Stifel Financial Corporation and advanced through several roles within the Education Group. Her positions included Associate, Vice President, Principal, and Managing Director. Her work there focused on investment banking transactions involving education operating companies and education technology service businesses.
Meredith Ruble later worked with Noodle Partners PBC in New York as Corporate Development Advisor. In this role, she supported capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and transaction-related planning. She later served as Chief Financial Officer from June 2019 to December 2023. During that period, she helped guide the company through growth from $1 million to more than $90 million. Her responsibilities included financial strategy, investor relations, business planning, and support for the company’s shift from managing third-party vendors to offering broader services to universities.
Meredith Ruble also played an important role in Noodle Partners PBC’s acquisition and financing work. She helped guide the company through four acquisitions and supported four debt rounds and seven equity funding rounds. These efforts raised $120 million in total. Her work required financial planning, transaction coordination, investor communication, and attention to post-transaction integration. Through these responsibilities, she helped the company manage expansion while keeping financial operations organized and aligned with business needs.
Meredith Ruble served as Chief Financial Officer at Noodle Companies LLC from June 2017 to June 2019. In this position, she helped rebuild accounting systems and improve financial processes across several independent businesses. Her work supported Noodle Markets, Noodle Partners, Noodle.com, and Noodle Pros. She also developed cash forecasting, budgeting, and reporting tools for these companies. In addition, she managed back-office administrative functions across human resources, IT, legal, finance, and accounting.
Meredith Ruble previously served as Chief Financial Officer for ID Tech Camps in Campbell, California, from July 2013 to March 2017. ID Tech Camps provided technology-focused educational summer camp programs. Within 90 days of her joining, the company completed a minority recapitalization sale. As CFO, she helped implement budgeting and planning tools, manage the company’s purchase order system, and oversee expenses. Her work supported revenue growth from $25 million to $65 million over three years.
Meredith Ruble also helped improve the customer service division at ID Tech Camps by using real-time data and performance targets. This work helped strengthen the division as a sales operation and gave the company clearer ways to measure progress. Her contributions supported the company’s later sale to Emeritus for $200 million. The transaction provided a significant return for investors and reflected the value of better reporting, stronger planning, and disciplined operations.
Key Skills and Achievements
Meredith Ruble has experience with business intelligence and financial tools such as Adaptive, Tableau, and NetSuite. She has used these systems for forecasting, reporting, planning, and performance analysis. Her background also includes strategic financial leadership, consulting, investment banking, merger and acquisition execution, and financial integration. She has developed actionable KPIs and helped align finance with business operations through tools such as SalesforceIQ and HubSpot.
Meredith Ruble has also supported women's presence in finance and educational technology through her leadership roles and professional example. Her career has included senior responsibilities in investment banking, corporate finance, financial operations, and growth-stage company leadership. She has helped companies raise capital, complete acquisitions, improve reporting systems, restructure financial processes, and manage investor relationships. Her work reflects a consistent ability to support organizations at key stages of growth and change.
Personal Details
Meredith Ruble grew up in central Pennsylvania. Her mother was a beauty queen in Mississippi, and her father served as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. She showed independence early in life and became an exchange student at age 15, living abroad for more than a year. She later attended Mercersburg Academy before studying at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in economics and minored in Japanese studies.
Meredith Ruble is most proud of her years as Managing Director of an investment bank and as Chief Financial Officer of Noodle Partners PBC and Noodle Companies LLC. These roles allowed her to combine financial leadership, business operations, investor relations, and strategic planning. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys spending time with her dogs and cooking. She also enjoys home design and gardening. Through her career and personal life, Meredith Ruble continues to show independence, discipline, and a steady commitment to meaningful work.
Meredith Ruble has built her career through clear analysis, steady collaboration, and practical financial leadership. She has experience working with executive teams, investors, and internal departments to solve business problems and support important initiatives. Her work often includes identifying areas for improvement, building reporting systems, and creating performance analytics that help leaders understand results. She has also helped companies connect financial planning to operating goals, supporting better decisions during periods of growth and transition.
Professional Experience
Meredith Ruble currently serves as Managing Director at Maximus Partners, where she works with private equity investors and executive teams. Her role is supported by fifteen years of investment banking experience and ten years as a chief financial officer. She helps growth-oriented organizations strengthen financial operations, improve planning tools, and manage business priorities. Her work focuses on education, services, technology, and investment banking. These sectors reflect the areas where she has spent much of her career supporting companies as they scale and improve internal structure.
Meredith Ruble began her professional career in 1993 at CMS Companies in Philadelphia. She started as an Analyst and later became a Senior Analyst. These roles gave her early experience in financial review, business analysis, and transaction support. In 2000, she joined Stifel Financial Corporation and advanced through several roles within the Education Group. Her positions included Associate, Vice President, Principal, and Managing Director. Her work there focused on investment banking transactions involving education operating companies and education technology service businesses.
Meredith Ruble later worked with Noodle Partners PBC in New York as Corporate Development Advisor. In this role, she supported capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and transaction-related planning. She later served as Chief Financial Officer from June 2019 to December 2023. During that period, she helped guide the company through growth from $1 million to more than $90 million. Her responsibilities included financial strategy, investor relations, business planning, and support for the company’s shift from managing third-party vendors to offering broader services to universities.
Meredith Ruble also played an important role in Noodle Partners PBC’s acquisition and financing work. She helped guide the company through four acquisitions and supported four debt rounds and seven equity funding rounds. These efforts raised $120 million in total. Her work required financial planning, transaction coordination, investor communication, and attention to post-transaction integration. Through these responsibilities, she helped the company manage expansion while keeping financial operations organized and aligned with business needs.
Meredith Ruble served as Chief Financial Officer at Noodle Companies LLC from June 2017 to June 2019. In this position, she helped rebuild accounting systems and improve financial processes across several independent businesses. Her work supported Noodle Markets, Noodle Partners, Noodle.com, and Noodle Pros. She also developed cash forecasting, budgeting, and reporting tools for these companies. In addition, she managed back-office administrative functions across human resources, IT, legal, finance, and accounting.
Meredith Ruble previously served as Chief Financial Officer for ID Tech Camps in Campbell, California, from July 2013 to March 2017. ID Tech Camps provided technology-focused educational summer camp programs. Within 90 days of her joining, the company completed a minority recapitalization sale. As CFO, she helped implement budgeting and planning tools, manage the company’s purchase order system, and oversee expenses. Her work supported revenue growth from $25 million to $65 million over three years.
Meredith Ruble also helped improve the customer service division at ID Tech Camps by using real-time data and performance targets. This work helped strengthen the division as a sales operation and gave the company clearer ways to measure progress. Her contributions supported the company’s later sale to Emeritus for $200 million. The transaction provided a significant return for investors and reflected the value of better reporting, stronger planning, and disciplined operations.
Key Skills and Achievements
Meredith Ruble has experience with business intelligence and financial tools such as Adaptive, Tableau, and NetSuite. She has used these systems for forecasting, reporting, planning, and performance analysis. Her background also includes strategic financial leadership, consulting, investment banking, merger and acquisition execution, and financial integration. She has developed actionable KPIs and helped align finance with business operations through tools such as SalesforceIQ and HubSpot.
Meredith Ruble has also supported women's presence in finance and educational technology through her leadership roles and professional example. Her career has included senior responsibilities in investment banking, corporate finance, financial operations, and growth-stage company leadership. She has helped companies raise capital, complete acquisitions, improve reporting systems, restructure financial processes, and manage investor relationships. Her work reflects a consistent ability to support organizations at key stages of growth and change.
Personal Details
Meredith Ruble grew up in central Pennsylvania. Her mother was a beauty queen in Mississippi, and her father served as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. She showed independence early in life and became an exchange student at age 15, living abroad for more than a year. She later attended Mercersburg Academy before studying at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in economics and minored in Japanese studies.
Meredith Ruble is most proud of her years as Managing Director of an investment bank and as Chief Financial Officer of Noodle Partners PBC and Noodle Companies LLC. These roles allowed her to combine financial leadership, business operations, investor relations, and strategic planning. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys spending time with her dogs and cooking. She also enjoys home design and gardening. Through her career and personal life, Meredith Ruble continues to show independence, discipline, and a steady commitment to meaningful work.
