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Atheneum is a leading global insights platform servicing various clients including distinguished strategy consulting firms, renowned investment houses and well known global corporations.
Our mission is to provide faster insights to empower our clients’ decision making. Through our AI capabilities we accelerate the decision-making of our clients by connecting them to the world’s top professionals and industry leaders.
Atheneum is growing rapidly, with 500+ professionals in 11 offices across the US, South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
We are proud to say that our people are from over 50 nations and we speak more than 50 languages.
Our Values
What We Stand For
Sustainability: Together we will strive towards cultivating a meaningful future. We care about the mark we make on our world.
Entrepreneurship: Our vision combines powerful human thinking with innovative technology to create a winning formula.
Excellence: Integrity and quality are prominent in all we do. We strive to realize and achieve our full potential.
Diversity: Equality in our difference is ingrained in our DNA. Diversity is not just part of our culture, it is what defines us.
Supportive Spirit: We are one global team, united in our shared mission to grow and carve the way for others to follow. We embark on this journey together, everyone has a voice and everyone will be heard.
Your Atheneum Career Development Path
Powerful minds in action
Whatever you need to progress, we will be there to take you further than ever before.
Your future depends on performance, continuous learning and achievement. So it’s time to challenge tradition and focus on experiences, connections and opportunities.
«Before joining Atheneum I was captivated by its entrepreneurial story and ambitious future plans. It has not disappointed. Through supportive training and management I have been encouraged to push myself and realize my full potential. The best thing about working here at Atheneum has to be the amazing culture. Every day I work alongside innovative, forward thinking team members from a truly diverse range of backgrounds.»
PARTNERS
Partnering with and Building One Sector Defining Business
About Us
We are an experienced pair of entrepreneurs with deep operating and investing experience looking to partner with a single growth oriented family owned business. We spent the last decade of our careers building middle market companies through our experiences in investment banking, private equity, and founding our own companies. We are excited to spend the next decade growing your business into a sector defining platform.
Orlan Davies
I have a decade of experience operating, buying, and building middle market companies. I plan to apply my skillset towards building scalable operations and financial systems while John super charges revenue and volume growth.
Prior to founding Athenaeum, I ran a consulting practice helping companies raise capital, conduct FP&A and implement business intelligence systems. Previously, I led the finance, HR, and accounting teams.
Orlan Davies
I have a decade of experience operating, buying, and building middle market companies. I plan to apply my skillset towards building scalable operations and financial systems while John super charges revenue and volume growth.
Prior to founding Athenaeum, I ran a consulting practice helping companies raise capital, conduct FP&A and implement business intelligence systems. Previously, I led the finance, HR, and accounting teams at United Scope, the world’s largest ecommerce supplier of microscopes. Prior to that, I was an investment professional at ClearLight Partners, a middle market private equity firm. At ClearLight I served on the board/governance teams of Untied Tactical Systems, Katzkin, and Evriholder. I started my career at Intrepid Investment Bankers, a middle market investment bank.
I graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a dual BA in Economics and Computer Science. I spend most of my free time treating my sunburns indoors or getting the next one outdoors, either skiing out west or hiking the trails in Southern California.
I look forward to talking,
John Rochefort
I am entrepreneur at heart and successfully founded and exited my first business before graduating college. I spent the last 10 years further developing my skills as a manager and intend to apply these skills to grow your company into a sector defining business while Orlan makes sure the operations can support the growth.
Prior to founding Athenaeum, I was an Investment Professional at Spanos Barber & Jesse.
John Rochefort
I am entrepreneur at heart and successful founded and exited my first business before graduating college. I spent the last 10 years further developing my skills as a manager and intend to apply these skills to grow your company into a sector defining business while Orlan makes sure the operations can support the growth.
Prior to founding Athenaeum, I was an Investment Professional at Spanos Barber & Jesse, a private investment firm that manages approximately $300 million of committed capital focused on lower middle-market consumer, business services, and healthcare services companies. I joined SBJ in 2016 and supported all aspects of diligence, deal execution, and portfolio management. At SBJ, I served on the investment teams responsible for overseeing Under Canvas, Troy Lee Designs, and Resolvion. Prior to joining SBJ, I started my career at Intrepid Investment Bankers, a middle market investment bank. While at Intrepid, I executed a variety of sell side and buy side transactions for companies across the consumer and business services industries.
I graduated with a BA from Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges, where I studied Economics and was a Robert Day Scholar. Born and raised in South Orange County, I spend most of my free time surfing, failing to teach Orlan how to surf, and shaping surfboards.
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Our Partners
Athenaeum is fortunate to be backed by a group of institutional investors and proven entrepreneurs with successful track records in our targeted industries. Below is a list of a few of our investors:
What We’re Searching For
We have collectively advised on or executed over 20 M&A transactions, so we understand what it takes to get a deal done. We have a flexible mandate from our investors but the deals that get us particularly excited typically exhibit the characteristics below.
Company Criteria
$5 to $75 million of revenue
EBITDA / Cash Flow positive
Headquartered in the United States or Canada
Transaction Dynamics
Founder seeking help to scale their business to the next level
Owner looking to reduce day-to-day involvement
Target Industries
Tech / Software Services
Origins of Our Name
Broadly, an Athenaeum (/ˌaTHəˈnēəm/ or “ath en A um”) is an institution for the promotion of literary or scientific learning, most often a Library or scholarly publication. Slightly before our time, the Athenaeum was a renowned school in Rome, founded by the Emperor Hadrian, for the promotion of literary and scientific studies. It was named Athenaeum in tribute the city of Athens, which was regarded as the seat of intellectual refinement at the time.
More directly, we draw our name from The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College, where we were both Robert Day Scholars. We think back fondly to our formative undergraduate years and the opportunities that were born from our time in Claremont so we thought it was only natural to pay our dues to the institution that helped kickstart our careers years ago. The “Ath” hosts weekly dinner and lecture events with speakers representing a range of disciplines and ideological perspectives each year, serving as the college’s central intellectual and social hub.
We draw inspiration from both Emperor Hadrian’s and Claremont’s Athenaeum. We are dedicated to being ever learning, inquisitive, and humble leaders of each organization we are fortunate enough to join. To business owners and sellers – we want to partner with you because all the things you have done right and the legacy you have built. We aim to study the history of your success and we commit to preserving your accomplishments and culture while guiding the next chapter of you company’s story
Sherk (14 July 1988). The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-0-521-33887-5.
Atheneum
Atheneum was founded in 2010 by former consultants from L.E.K. and Kaiser Associates. It gained strong presence in Germany and central Europe and is today one of the larger global expert networks. In September 2022, Atheneum had around 500 employees and a network of 800 000+ expert advisors, one of the biggest expert databases in the industry. This is up from 350 employees and 450k advisors two years before.
The company has a strength in the life sciences/ healthcare sector, but covers all industries globally. Other healthcare-focused expert networks include FirstThought, Techspert, Guidepoint, Inlightened, and BTHT.
Atheneum timeline and notable events
2010: Started in Berlin, Germany.
€1m from business angels, including angel firm Captona.
€1.5 from angels and Vogel Communications Group, a German publishing conglomerate.
2015: Atheneum raised €10m at a €50m valuation. The round was led by Vogel Business Media.
2018: The firm raised another €10m from growth capital firm Crosslantic Capital Management.
2019: Announced an updated offering. Research-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the name for the combination of (1) expert calls, (2) custom reports and (3) expert recruitment for longer-term projects. In conjunction with this, the firm appointed a new CTO to drive the adoption of machine learning in the expert recruitment process. The CTO had previously co-founded Chime Advisors, a machine-driven expert network.
2020: Began collaborating with Nikkei, a Japanese research service, to share experts between the two firms.
2021: Atheneum raised $150m from Guidepost Growth (unrelated to the expert network Guidepoint).
2022: Atheneum appointed a new CEO, who promptly ran two rounds of layoffs.
Atheneum was featured in our expert network benchmarking from June-July 2018. Inex One identified Atheneum as a regional champion in our review of the expert network market size. Regional champions have a particularly strong foothold in their respective regions, while typically also offering global services.
CSR highlight: Atheneum plants a tree for every expert consultation. This meant the company planted 73 trees per day in 2019. Oddly, they also have a partnership with Lufthansa, giving airmiles to clients who book expert interviews.
Atheneum has offices in 11 locations: Berlin (HQ), London, New York, Santiago De Chile, Lahore, Shanghai, Seoul, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Munich.