Pay too little and you lose the leader. Pay without evidence and you lose the argument internally. Both are avoidable.
Athena benchmarks executive and leadership compensation against tailored comparator pools built for your specific challenge, giving you accurate, defensible data for every offer and review.
We construct comparator sets specific to your sector, stage and role, not a generic survey average.
Base, variable, long-term incentives and benefits are all captured for a true like-for-like picture.
You receive clear guidance on where to position pay to attract and retain the leaders you need.
Real-time data governed by relevance, not convenience.
Evidence your board and CFO can stand behind.
Understand where you are exposed before a key leader is approached.
We interpret the numbers, not just report them.
Primarily executive and senior leadership roles, including the C-suite and critical functional leaders, where precise comparators matter most.
We work from real-time and recent data, and build the comparator pool specifically for each engagement rather than reusing a static survey.
Tell us the role or challenge and a partner responds personally, usually within one business day. Enquiries are never routed to an automated queue. Talk to our partners to begin.
Yes. We publish real mandates end to end, including the brief, how far we searched and who was appointed. Browse our case studies.
A partner, throughout. There are no handoffs to junior researchers after the pitch, and no portal in between. That is the point of a boutique. See how we are different.
We work from Gurgaon in India and Dubai in the UAE, and through partners in 45 countries across APAC, EMEA and the Americas. Find your nearest office.
Athena is powered by TheHireHub.ai for sourcing and matching, with every shortlist still assessed and defended by a partner. See how AI works in our process.
Entirely. Discretion is fundamental to leadership hiring, and nothing you share leaves Athena without your explicit consent.
Tell us about the mandate or challenge you are facing, and we will show you what a tailor-made, partner-led engagement really looks like.