Team Athena Pvt. Ltd. was established in India in 2022, by a group of Agri and Food professionals working towards an enabling environment for successful agriculture businesses across India and globally.  

Team Athena is a consulting organisation helping our clients in strategy, implementation and leading process driven advisory across agri and food value chains to strengthen top line as well as bottom line of the organizations.

Our Approach

  • With deep understanding in India and global agri and food businesses, our multi-faceted teams understand the challenges, identify the best options, and provide customized, implementable business solutions. Our approach is to make agriculture profitable for farmers and businesses, sustainable for earth, using modern ag technologies solutions (AI / ML etc) through resilient and sustainable solutions.
  • We work to create agricultural systems that help farmers adapt to climate change and run a commercially viable business, while at the same time protecting our planet and limiting the expansion of farmland.

Our People

At Team Athena, our leadership team combines extensive industry experience with a passion for innovation and sustainability, driving impactful solutions for the agri-food sector.

Gurbinder Gill

Director - Team Athena

With over 30 years of experience in agricultural businesses such as Monsanto, Pepsi, and DeltaPine, Gill specializes in Business Development, Managing Public-Private Partnerships, Corporate Affairs, and M&A in both Indian and international markets.

Ashu kapoor

Director - Team Athena

Technopreneur with 25+ years of experience in the areas of technology management, automation & implementation of digital solutions across different industry domains

Abhinav Nehra

Lead-Fintech Strategy

A seasoned banker, Abhinav has built businesses from scratch in emerging markets and has a penchant for innovation across payments, fintech, digital lending/BNPL, agency banking, SME-led embedded finance, and retail banking.

Arun Pandhi

Founder & Managing Director - P-Green Solutions

Arun brings over three decades of knowledge in the development sector, especially in water, agriculture, dairy, and rural development. He has contributed to various initiatives and institutions as the Director of Program Implementation with the Tata Trusts and has been on the board of various non-profit and Section 8 companies.

Rupinder Kaur

Lead-Behavioral Science and Performance Consulting

A management consultant and researcher, Rupinder has been operating globally in the field of behavioral sciences for the past 20 years, focusing on psychodynamics (the neuro study of human behavior) to achieve high-performance results for individuals and organizations.

Susan Georgie

Lead - Communication & CSR

Susan has over 25 years of experience in CSR and Corporate Communications across FMCG, agriculture, and MNCs like Mondelez India, Monsanto India, and United Television.