People & context

Ivan Petrov is Principal Consultant at Meridian Consulting, the partner Acme brought in for the in-store production piece; he and Ruth Oyelaran represent Meridian on the bakery workstream. At the 2026-01-28 bakery scoping session he proposed that Meridian "consume a forecast and own the plan", which Nadia Haddad and Lena Fischer accepted, and he asked how often the DC-2 feed fails; Lena Fischer answered "Once a fortnight, roughly", and Nadia offered to share the incident log. 1–7 On 2026-02-10 Ana Duarte sent him the DC-2 incident log as promised at scoping; Ivan confirmed receipt and stated "We will build assuming roughly fortnightly failures", while advising Ana to ignore a comment about a scheduled job as not Meridian's business. At the 2026-03-17 design workshop he sought finer-than-day granularity on baked lines, saying "Two windows would be enough. Morning and afternoon"; when Tomas Lindholm offered a fixed day-splitting profile derived from historical hourly sales, explicitly not a true intraday forecast, Ivan accepted: "That is enough for us." 8–13 On 2026-02-24 he requested read access to the test environment for himself and Ruth for the bakery build. Priya Nair rejected this on 2026-03-02, ruling that Meridian works from extracts because she cannot explain broad third-party access to her data protection officer; Ivan replied the same day that it was "the right call" and that Meridian works from extracts on most engagements. Separately, on 2026-01-21 Priya reported that her mobile number reached Meridian via a forwarded runbook (Ivan had quoted the runbook to her from a thread she was not on) and asked that the consultancy delete it; no confirmation of deletion appears in the supplied evidence. Earlier, a 2025-11-24 note recorded that reconciliation-extract attachments with OP_ID operator identifiers went to a distribution list including three Meridian staff, and Kwame Boateng stated he cannot purge those attachments. 14–19 Recommendation: at the next conversation with Ivan, ask for confirmation that Priya Nair's mobile number has been deleted from Meridian's records, since her 2026-01-21 request is unconfirmed in the archive; acknowledge the OP_ID attachment exposure affecting three Meridian recipients, which cannot be purged at source; and confirm the extracts-based working arrangement remains workable for the bakery build, building on his stated acceptance of that arrangement and of the fixed-profile approach. 18, 19, 16, 13