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Coen van Oostrom

Company

EDGE Technologies

Founder & CEO

Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

About

Coen van Oostrom founded Edge in 1997 and (1970) has built the company into the largest commercial property developer and investor in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. He created dedicated entrepreneurial teams in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom and plans to build on the company’s success through expansion into new markets around the world.

Oostrom is a global leader in tech-enabled, sustainable & healthy building development in the real estate industry. His approach is founded on the goal to zero-in on greenhouse gas emissions and material waste. While working towards a carbon neutral future with developments such as EDGE Suedkreuz, Valley and EDGE Amsterdam West, Edge has developed 1.85 million square meters of sustainable buildings and has over €3.,5 billion of projects in the pipeline across Europe.In 2020, to further expand Edge’s horizon, he launched EDGE Next: a ground-breaking technology platform that can make any existing building perform better, and EDGE Workspaces which offers a flexible office concept for quality seeking tenants of all shapes and sizes.

In 2007, he was named Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and in 2020, he was appointed Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Real Estate Industry Group. He is also a Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and on the Board of the Urban Land Institute Europe.

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