Our consultants have an advanced degree and at least 20 years of experience actually working in the field in various leadership positions. This union of theory and practice is essential to our analytic, data-driven, pragmatic, organization-centered approach.
Who we are
Athena & Partners is an executive advisory and management consulting firm, consisting of an innovative entrepreneurial team of primarily seasoned executives.
What we do
We support owners, leadership teams and board of directors with advisory, implementation and interim-management services on strategy, organization, transformation and reorganization.
We help our clients to improve and accelerate their business performance.
We partner with leaders to solve their industry-defining challenges, to identify their highest-value opportunities to increase revenue & profit, and to help them out in crisis situations.
We help our clients with total transformation; driving complex change, building competitive advantage, enabling growth, and driving bottom-line impact.
Our services and solutions are tailored to our client’s specific challenges and needs. We identify root-causes and opportunities quickly and design impactful strategies and plans to address them.
Why work with us
Our consultants are highly experienced in dealing with complex challenges in times of rapid growth, crisis, economic decline and increasing competition.
We are seasoned executives who have been in your shoes.
Our consultants have at least 20 years of wide-ranging international experience in senior leadership positions in the following industries; logistics, supply chain management, facilities management & real estate, information management, business solutions, banking, construction and manufacturing.
We don’t make promises, we make commitments.
We align our financial incentives with our client’s results.
Our mission
Our mission is to create and unlock value for our clients.
Our passion
Our passion is to deliver outstanding results.
Our story
Ad Wijnhoven, our CEO and Managing Partner, founded Athena & Partners in 2020.
“During my career, I have developed a unique set of skills and gained extensive knowledge and experience in managing companies and leadership teams through periods of rapid growth, economic decline, increasing competition and in times of crisis.
I consider this expertise as a powerful gift that deserves to be shared. Why not send it out into the world and help lifting other companies to new heights as well?
Sharing my expertise not only helps other companies in achieving their objectives, it also helps me deepen my knowledge and expand my professional network”.
Before founding Athena & Partners, Ad served 3.5 years as CEO with European Customer Synergy S.A., a leading European facilities management company. Prior to joining European Customer Synergy, Ad served in various executive and senior management roles with The Brinks Company (NYSE: BCO), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), DHL (ETR:DPW), Kuehne+Nagel and BAX Global.
Ad holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Rochester (NY) and the Nyenrode Business Universiteit.