Team

Meet the dedicated experts behind Meridian Labs.

Alexandra Abbas
(Technical Program Manager)
Alexandra is Technical Program Manager at Meridian Labs, directing projects that advance AI evaluations through scalable systems. Prior to joining Meridian, Alexandra co-founded the AI Safety Engineering Taskforce in 2024. She has lead the development of Inspect Evals, an open-source repository of 70+ AI evaluations, and has collaborated with the UK AI Security Institute, Vector Institute, and METR..

Previously, Alexandra was Engineering Lead at Wise, managing a team of 5 engineers on projects that saved millions in foreign exchange losses. She has published first-author research on AI evaluations and adversarial training, and holds an MSc in Big Data Engineering from the University of Stirling.
Eric Patey
(Principal Researcher)
Eric co-founded Meridian Labs in 2025, bringing extensive expertise in software architecture and engineering leadership. Most recently, he served as Distinguished Engineer at Sonos after leading their entry into B2B as Senior Director for Sonos for Business.

Previously, Eric co-founded Talko Inc. as VP of Development, was Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft across Xbox and Office platforms, and was a co-founder/VP of Development at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft), was a founding engineer at SilverStream Software and led development at Iris Associates (Lotus Notes).
Ransom Richardson
(Principal Researcher)
Ransom joined Meridian Labs in 2025 as Principal Researcher where he works to advance AI evaluation platform technology. Prior to joining Meridian, Ransom served as Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, where he led the technical design of Copilot Pages and directed the development of Microsoft Loop Copilot, delivering features with exceptional customer feedback.

Previously, Ransom built a machine learning team focused on improving collaboration in Microsoft Office, partnered with the Microsoft AI Development Acceleration Program to develop early-in-career AI talent at Microsoft, shipped Azure ML FPGA inferencing, co-founded Talko Inc. (acquired by Microsoft) as service team lead, and was an engineer at Groove Networks where he designed their peer-to-peer synchronization engine. He holds 20+ patents and published research in cryptography.
Charles Teague
(CEO)
Charles co-founded Meridian Labs in 2025 to advance the public understanding of AI systems. Prior to founding Meridian, Charles was a TASP Fellow at the RAND Corporation, where he focused on frameworks and methdologies for evaluating large language models, helping build the Inspect AI platform.

Prior to his work in open source software, Charles built products used by millions of people and co-founded companies with successful exits to Macromedia, Microsoft, and EverydayHealth.
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