Human ingenuity is a massive driver of business success. Investing in the right talent is key to growth, especially when a company is in need of reinvention. That is where Meridian, an Irish tax consultancy firm, found itself in the late noughties. Originally set up in 1990 by entrepreneurial wunderkind Fran “we want to be the guerilla in the marketplace” Rooney, before he went on to be CEO of the fabled, then deeply-troubled, Nasdaq-listed Baltimore Technologies, Meridian had a straightforward raison d’etre in its early days – to help businesses reclaim Vat on cross border trade in the EU. It…