Meet the Team
Denominator is an international company with people in almost every part of the world; we are all different, but all the same. The same can be said about our clients and partners. We approach our job with empathy, curiosity, and a desire to create the best possible data and insights to facilitate knowledge and accountability-based solutions within Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
By introducing some of our people, we want you to get to know us a little better.
Bassam Yousri
Researcher
Curitiba, Brazil
Emma Helbo
Content Manager
Aarhus, Denmark
Anders A. L. Rodenberg
Chief Executive Officer
New York, USA
Corwyn Miyagishima
Web Developer
Massachusetts, USA
Ann Rosenberg
Advisory Board
Los Angeles, USA
Elena Voloshina
UI/UX Designer
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Kristian Wredstroem
Business Strategy & Partnerships
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bassam Yousri
Researcher
Curitiba, Brazil
I joined Denominator as a part of the research team. One of my main tasks is to search, prospect, and perform quality controls on the global DEI data. Denominator allows me to support equality and preserve diversity.
Working with many nationalities and living in different parts of the world helped me realize the importance of DEI and how much we need to discuss the topic.
I graduated from El Shorouk Academy with a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning, but most of my experience has been in the field of business.
I am an Egyptian-Brazilian citizen, born and raised in Egypt where I lived until I finished my education. After that I worked in different companies around the Middle East, Europe, and Latin American. Right now, I live in Brazil with my wife and daughter.
Emma Helbo
Content Manager & Partnerships
Aarhus, Denmark
As the youngest on our team,I joined Denominator in May 2021 and am responsible for our content such as writing articles for Denominator’s DEI News and LinkedIn. I also work on our partnerships and business development.
With a background in Political Science, I have practical experience from various interest groups and lived in Brussels working with EU policy and lobbyism. I’m a strong advocator for a holistic approach to DEI; we need to go beyond gender and race. Information, transparency, and strong data are key to achieving real improvements. I want to help companies and organizations improve DEI, as I believe real changes often come from within the industry and businesses themselves.
At the age of two, I was adopted from Vietnam by Danish parents and grew up in a small town along with my sister, who is from China. When we were younger, people always said we looked alike, but we don’t. It always seemed a mystery to us that people didn’t seem to notice the diverse characteristics that made us inherently unique. As we grew older, however, we developed many common interests, such as justice, as she became a Lawyer and I’m a Lay Judge.
Anders A. L. Rodenberg
Chief Executive Officer
New York, USA
As CEO of Denominator, I do a little bit of everything, but my most important job is to engage with people both inside and outside of Denominator. Data might be the foundation of knowledge and accountability, but it requires people to turn knowledge and accountability into solutions and improvements. In the end, my job is about people.
Prior to Denominator, I spent more than a decade working at Moody’s Analytics with people across Europe, US, Canada, Latin America, and some parts of Asia. I have a Master’s degree in Political Science but think my most important skills and life lessons come from my upbringing. I was raised by a single mother in Denmark but come from a multinational family with a Swedish father, a sister from Asia and another sister from the Arctic region. We were all different, but all the same. This taught us empathy, curiosity for the unknown, and that it is ok to agree to disagree.
Kristian Wredstroem
Business Strategy & Partnerships
Copenhagen, Denmark
Working within our Business Strategy & Partnerships department, my focus is on developing and maintaining our business operations and fostering partnerships. Engagement with our clients and partners to ensure alignment with their individual needs energizes me, and I always strive to make myself available for a quick phone call.
Though I’m a Danish citizen, my love for American football brought me to the United States at the age of 16 and allowed me to obtain a degree in Finance & Economics from Wagner College in New York. After a total of 6 years studying in the US, I returned home to Denmark and spent several years in project management in the financial services industry.
Diversity & Inclusion played a large role in my upbringing. Our home was always open to individuals and families of all different backgrounds that needed a roof over their head. Given these experiences, differences in race, gender, age, socio-economic background, etc. were always introduced to me as a measure of strength rather than a weakness.
Ann Rosenberg
Advisory Board
Los Angeles, USA
As a global citizen based in Los Angeles, I have 25 years of experience in the corporate world working with sustainability and purpose. After 20 years at SAP, I have now moved to Wood plc where I am Senior Vice President for Sustainability Solutions. I was part of founding SDG Ambition with UN Global Compact and have dedicated my life to serving as a trailblazer for the UN SDGs. I am also a UN Women GICC member and Global Program Lead for #sheinnovates.
I am part of Denominator’s Advisory Board and will use my experience to develop the business and create further growth. As a pioneer of structured data on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI), Denominator has the potential of being a strong partner for every organization that’s interested in strengthening their DEI performance and benchmark against peers. We need trusted data providers, like Denominator, to deliver important insights with a holistic approach on DEI.
Elena Voloshina
UI/UX Designer
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
I work as UI/UX designer on design projects in collaboration with the team. For me, a UX designer must be a great collaborator, a great compromiser, and of course a great advocator for the users. At Denominator, I am focused on creating meaningful experiences through design for all people who use our products.
I am originally from Ukraine but have been living in Saint-Petersburg since 2017, as the political situation in the eastern region of my native country forced me to leave. Having this experience, I believe Denominator’s mission is necessary for our world as a cure. A holistic approach to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion reveals how we always have more in common than what differentiates us. Our work shows the strength of DEI as a unifying factor, which brings hope for my hometown.
Corwyn Miyagishima
Web Developer
Massachusetts, USA
I joined Denominator in April of 2021, bringing over two decades of software engineering experience to the technology team.
Being a software engineer as well as an ordained Buddhist priest, it’s been a challenge to find work that applies my technical skills to my Zen principles. Denominator provides me with a unique opportunity to apply both my thinking mind and my heart-mind to helping companies around the world improve their DEI policies and practices.
Living in the northeastern United States for all my life, I have been blessed to have personally experienced relatively little racism, even though my Japanese heritage is clear in my features and many of my habits. But throughout my life, I’ve seen how terrible we humans can be to each other because of perceived differences. I am glad to be working with Denominator towards ending this tribalism that is so unnecessary in the modern world.
A holistic approach to DEI
DEI covers multiple different dimensions. Gender, race, ethnicity, age, engagement, opportunity, and disability are some of the dimensions, but the list is much longer. As a consequence, a holistic approach is essential when discussing, measuring, analyzing,or assessing DEI.
Most DEI efforts only focus on a single or maybe two DEI dimensions. A single or narrow approach to DEI leads to lost opportunities and minimizes the return on DEI investments. Denominator is the only provider that takes a holistic approach in all efforts and work as the guardian of neutral influence between the DEI dimensions.
The comprehensive approach entails that we measure and score on more DEI dimensions and sub-dimensions than any other company in the market. That allows us to assist our clients to manage risk, identify opportunities and create sustainable improvements.
Our DEI Statistics
Denominator has more than 10 different nationalities with people from South America, North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
56% Female and 44% Male
Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and Atheism
Average age is 33
47% Asian, 33% Caucasian, 13% Middle Eastern, and 7% Hispanic
Married, Relationship, and Single
Economics, Law, Political Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information & Communication Technology, Business Administration, and Architecture & Urban planning
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