Corporate Development
M&A, divestitures, and carve-outs taken from thesis to board, with the separation and stranded-cost analysis that decides whether a deal creates value.
OPERATOR-LED STRATEGY FOR INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES
Before we advised
industrial businesses,
we ran them.
AiroEdge puts more than twenty years of industrial operating judgment, and a proprietary analytical platform, on board-level decisions: for mid-market industrials, and for the decisions inside larger companies that deserve senior attention without big-firm overhead.
No pitch deck. Bring one decision, leave with a sharper read on it.
RECORD / FIVE NAMED INDUSTRIAL ROLES SINCE 2002, VERIFIABLE
PLATFORM / SEVEN LIVE TOOLS RUNNING ON THIS SITE
LIVE NOW / LEADING A SEPARATION AND TRANSFORMATION
THE OPERATOR BEHIND THE FIRM · every figure is verifiable
20+
YEARS OPERATING INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES
5
NAMED INDUSTRIAL ROLES SINCE 2002
MIT Sloan
AND COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Senior-led
NO JUNIOR TEAM, NO HANDOFF
Proof, not claims
Most consultants show you slides. We hand you the machine.
This one runs on your numbers. Five sliders, industry quartile bands, and a dollar figure for what is at stake in your P&L, live on this page in under a minute. The full machinery sits behind it on the platform page.
This is one working tool from a broader analytical platform. It spans strategy, valuation, transformation, and M&A. The tools are the proof. The value is a senior operator applying the full platform to your specific problem.
ILLUSTRATIVE / HOW WE WOULD APPROACH IT
A healthy margin can hide a borrowed one.
Take a specialty chemicals unit that reports a healthy margin. Priced as one business, it looks durable. Priced on its parts, the picture changes. This one is live: decompose the number yourself, then move the cycle and watch the blended lens break.
You are facing a decision that does not fit a junior team.
A carve-out you have to defend to a board. A margin problem the plant floor already sees but the model does not. A portfolio where steady commodity earnings quietly hide where the real value sits. These are senior calls, and they reward judgment built on the operating floor more than a polished deck. That is the gap AiroEdge was built for.
WHAT WE DO
Six kinds of work, each done in depth.
Capital and Portfolio Strategy
Where capital should sit across the portfolio, and which businesses to fix, fund, or exit. The home of telling durable specialty value from borrowed commodity earnings.
Growth Strategy
Where to compete and how to win on the organic paths, sequenced so the surest and fastest value comes first.
Operational Value Creation
Where margin and cost really live, on the floor and in the process, designed up to the number. Includes org design and strategic sourcing.
Transformation and Execution
We stay embedded and drive the program to results, the part most firms hand back to you.
AI and Advanced Analytics
Where the technology actually pays, folded into the operating model so it holds, powered by our analytical platform.
STRATEGIC-VALUE DIAGNOSTIC
See how we think before you spend a dollar.
Answer a few questions about your situation and the diagnostic sorts it into the kind of problem it is. You get a clear read on where the value sits and what the work would focus on, in a few minutes, free.
MARKETMARGINPORTFOLIOTRANSACTIONEXECUTION
Run the diagnostic
HOW THE WORK RUNS
Senior-led, clearly scoped, built on a real platform.
Senior attention, start to finish
You work directly with the operator who ran industrial businesses, not a junior team learning on your time.
Clear scope and fees up front
You know what is included, how long it takes, and what it costs before you commit.
A proprietary analytical platform
Our own platform structures the problem, pressure-tests the logic, and builds board-ready models, so the work goes deep fast and the answer holds.
Atul Rathod
FOUNDER AND MANAGING PRINCIPAL
WHO DOES THE WORK
Led by an operator, not a career consultant.
AiroEdge is led by Atul Rathod, who spent more than two decades owning P&Ls across oilfield services (Schlumberger, Weatherford), specialty and commodity chemicals (Berrykem, Chemium), and industrial biotech (Manus) before advising on them. The firm advises from that chair: strategy that has met a real plant, a real customer, and a real number.
Read the operator storyStart with the decision in front of you.
Tell us what you are weighing. You will hear back from someone senior, not an inbox.
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