Make real, meaningful and visible change wherever you are on your DE&I journey
Our Story
EDGE Strategy is a Swiss tech company, created in 2013 to support the pioneering mission of the EDGE Certified Foundation. The foundation’s goal is to tackle persistent gender disparities in the workplace by developing and maintaining the EDGE Certification®, the first global standard for assessing and promoting workplace gender equality.
Recognizing the need for continuous improvement tools, EDGE Strategy developed EDGE Empower®, a digital platform combining comprehensive assessment, benchmarking, and action planning tools to help organizations manage and enhance their DE&I strategies.
“Our mission is to help organizations certify for gender and intersectional equity in the workplace, wherever they are on their DE&I journey.”
“Our vision is a more inclusive, equitable and prosperous society powered by gender and intersectional equity. It means a society where opportunities are open to all – built on a deeper understanding of DE&I. For organizations, it means they access higher performance by enhancing diversity of thought and intersectional difference at the highest levels of the organization.”
Board of directors
Aniela Unguresan is the Founder of the EDGE Certified Foundation, custodians of the world’s leading DE&I Certification standard, and CEO of EDGE Strategy, provider of EDGE Empower, DE&I data-led tech solution for businesses.
An economist by trade and with decades of data-driven experience, Aniela believes in the vital role gender intersectional equity plays in fostering sustainably successful organizations, inclusive economic participation and opportunities, and fair societies. Aniela holds an MBA from the University of Geneva and a BA in International Trade from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies.
Executive with a consolidated international experience in FMCG and retail, covering roles as global CEO, country CEO in Switzerland, Head of global projects, and Member of Boards of corporations and non-profit organizations. Co-Chair of the UN high level panel for Women Economic Empowerment reporting to the UN Secretary General in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (Jan 2016 – Sept 2017). Co-founder of «Valore D» (IT) and «Advance Women» (CH) Author of “The Other Half” (July 2019, LID Publishing and NZZ Libro).
Serial Entrepreneur, Tech investor and a Board Director. Member of the World Economic Forum’s European Digital Leaders network, and a member of the Steering Committee of digitalswitzerland. Co-founder of several telecom & internet international companies, with 4 successful exits. These included Wimax Telecom (acquired by Nextwave), SurfEU (acquired by Tiscali), RSL Communications (acquired by RSL) and Airpage (acquired by Telenor). Investor in multiple unicorns (Revolut, Fireblocks, Tomorrow.io, BigID) with numerous exits (CyberX Acquired by Microsoft, IntSights Acquired by Rapid7, and Ermetic Acquired by Tenable).
Jean-Guillaume Benoît serves as a Partner & Board Director at DECALIA Capital SA. He started his career at Société Générale in Paris as an M&A Analyst, and he became Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions at Crédit Agricole Indosuez in Milan, before devoting himself in 2004 to private equity at Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) in Geneva. In 2009, he co-founded SEC Partners with Cédric Anthonioz. Jean-Guillaume Benoît is a graduate of the Lyon School of Management and the ICS in Paris.
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