Jigyasa Wadhwa is our exceptionally talented and trusted advisor leading the entire Operations Vertical for Athena. She capitalizes her long-standing wealth of experience in retained executive search to identify and attract superior leaders to her clients. She is adroit at recruiting senior executive talent and executing complex searches for mid to large size organizations, private-equity-backed businesses and non-profit organizations.

Jigyasa engages in end-to-end delivery for CXO searches and partners with multiple Indian and international corporations unconfined to a single industry sector. In addition, she also conducts searches for board members and C-Suite leaders.

Jigyasa has earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IILM Institute for Higher Education. She is lauded for her unique flair and clarity of vision in the industry.

Arjun Jolly has profoundly lead a wide spectrum of management consulting services invigorated by his rich experience of over a decade in the executive search industry.

He has been a trusted advisor to CHRO’s and HR leaders for blue-chip companies pan-India and across industries. His areas of expertise include Talent Acquisition and EVP Strategy, Culture Change, HRBP, Capability Building, Identification and Development of HIPO’s, Change Management and more. Arjun has also managed HR membership renewal for Gartner and steered sales and account management for companies such as CEB and SHL.

Business Administration and Management. He is an extremely dynamic, passionate and diligent talent at Athena.

Aparna Ahuja is one of the most devoted talents at Athena. Having close to a decade of experience in Human Capital Advisory, she executes remarkably creative solutions and growth strategies on critical consulting assignments including key HR Consulting and M&A Advisory requirements.

As a founding member of Athena, she has actively collaborated with various global clients across distinct industry sectors & has emerged as a highly trusted advisor by virtue of her deep expertise in managing client expectations through extraordinary account management and delivery fortes.

Aparna is one of the youngest professionals to be elected as a council member representing APAC region at the Association of Executive Search Consultants. She has earned a bachelor’s degree from Delhi University, specializing in Entrepreneurship and Economics. She brings an ardent zeal and a plethora of industry experience to all her endeavours.

Bhavishya is a tremendously passionate and driven personality, under whose leadership Athena has accelerated to become one of the world’s premier Executive Search and Leadership Advisory organizations. It is through his resilience and perseverance that Athena has been established as the first ever independent retained search firm to be accredited as an AESC firm.

With over two decades of rich experience and a dedicated career in the executive search industry, Bhavishya is a trusted advisor of clients internationally on all aspects of identification, assessment and recruitment for leadership and board roles at both Board and C-Suite levels. Bhavishya’s leading expertise in consulting has enabled him to advise a large portfolio of clients on strategic talent management challenges like Market Entry Advisory, HR Due-Diligence, Board Advisory, Leadership Assessment and Compensation Benchmarking with complete finesse. He is also an exclusive M&A advisor to global organizations in the Technology and Professional Services industry.

Bhavishya has earned an engineering degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and he splendidly delivers corporate solutions, stirred by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a vigour for the industry.