Melinda Maximova is founder and matchmaker with Perfect Search, a VIP matchmaking service, relationship coach, matchmaking teacher, author, RescueDating blogger, and Examiner.com writer. She started Perfect Search after witnessing first hand the frustration people experience trying to find and keep true love. With an advanced degree in Sociology and Human Sexuality, she has established herself as a premier expert in her field, giving people hope again for finding healthy relationships, great sex and lasting love.

Maximova may be a woman but her clients have been men, giving her a unique, insider’s view of what men want from a woman's perspective. She knows how men think, what they want and what makes them run for the hills. Armed with this knowledge she penned the book, “Power Shift: Rescue Dating For Women”, an e-book that helps women avoid the relationship pitfalls of the power shift phenomenon and addresses controversial topics about the sexes.

Over the past 10 years, she has played Cupid for many successful marriages and conducted thousands of intimate interviews and has a wealth of information to help men and women overcome the challenges of dating, marriage, relationships, sex and love.