The Background
Atom's Australian-based founding executives, David Shearwood and Drew Wilson, had long pondered the pro's and con's of founding a boutique: being small and nimble would help them take advantage of market opportunities, but hinder their ability to fund large resource pools.
Traveling to India in early 2006 solved their dilemma. There they met talented, ambitious, well-educated future analysts who were pleased for work for 25% of the cost of their Western counterparts. An Australian/Indian operation seemed to offer the best of both worlds so Atom was incorporated in March 2006 and an Indian subsidary in July 2006.
