Coen van Oostrom
Founder & CEO, EDGE
Coen van Oostrom is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at EDGE, a global leader in tech-enabled, sustainable & healthy building development. EDGE is an OVG Real Estate company, which he founded in 1997. OVG’s portfolio consists of more than a million square meters of development in The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and United States. van Oostrom aims to radicalize sustainability through powerful innovations and seeks to effect further change in infrastructure and urban development, while drawing inspiration from global leaders. Galvanized by a meeting with Al Gore and his climate change documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, he became convinced of the green promise of untapped technologies, making it the company’s mission to deliver new standards of tech-driven responsible urban office development.
