Interview Series: Anders Rodenberg

This week’s read time: 5 minutes

Welcome to the Green Digest Interview Series, our weekly feature showcasing conversations with the industry’s leading voices - CSOs, sustainability directors, and other senior professionals shaping the sustainability landscape. Each edition dives into their professional journeys, hands-on insights, and outlook on the challenges and opportunities defining corporate sustainability.

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PROFILE

This week’s guest:

Anders Rodenberg

Founder & CEO of Denominator

Anders Rodenberg is the CEO of Denominator, a global leader in social and human capital data. With more than a decade of experience in the data industry and senior positions at Bureau van Dijk and later Moody’s, he has managed teams in both Europe and the Americas Region driving double digit growth and expanded product offerings within multiple areas.

Anders is an experienced speaker and subject-matter expert on data, especially data driven risk management, growth strategies, human capital and diversity issues. He has spoken at events and conferences around the world including UNGA, COP, Investor Summits and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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For those unfamiliar, what does Denominator do, and how does your data help companies and investors?

Denominator is the global leader in social and human capital data, helping companies and investors quantify, benchmark and manage ESG-related human capital risks and opportunities. Our database spans millions of public and private companies across 195+ countries and 85+ industries, providing structured insights into leadership composition, organizational data, and supply chain risks. We quantify factors within leadership and workforce dynamics, diversity, human rights, health & safety, and labor practice - through standardized, comparable, and transparent data.

Investors and companies use Denominator to understand their portfolios and supply chains from a people perspective, benchmark performance across regions and industries, and make informed decisions in strategy, procurement, and investment. In short, we bring structure, clarity, and comparability to the world’s most valuable yet least understood asset: people.

Human capital is often described as a company’s most valuable asset, yet it remains one of the least understood areas for investors. What makes this data so hard to capture, and how is Denominator changing that?

Human capital data continues to lack consistent disclosure standards or global reporting framework, making it difficult for investors to obtain reliable information.. As a result, relevant information is scattered across thousands of sources and formats — often unstructured and difficult to consolidate.

Denominator solves this through deep specialization, advanced technology, and human expertise. We collect and connect publicly available data using standardized methodologies with full source transparency. Our AI-driven data collection and validation processes, strengthened by rigorous quality checks from our expert team, ensures accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Denominator transforms fragmented human capital data into a structured, comparable, and decision-ready resource for companies and investors worldwide.

Your platform now covers over 5 million companies across 195+ countries. What are some of the most surprising or significant patterns you’re seeing when it comes to social and human capital performance globally?

This might not be that surprising, but one of the strongest patterns we see is the correlation between executive team composition, cognitive diversity, and performance on social and human capital metrics. While investors have traditionally focused on boards, our data shows that executives — who shape culture, policy, and day-to-day management —may have a larger impact on broader social and human capital performance. This insight highlights the growing importance of cognitive diversity in leadership as a key driver for both risk mitigation and long- term value creation.

You recently announced the acquisition of Equileap, creating what you called “the world’s largest human capital database.” What drove this decision, and what new capabilities or insights will this integration unlock for clients?

The acquisition of Equileap was driven by a simple reason: people are the common denominator. While every CEO calls their people their most valuable asset, human capital remains one of the least understood drivers of both risks and opportunities. Together, we are changing that. Integrating Equileap’s pioneering expertise in gender equality and diversity data strengthens and validates Denominator’s existing datasets, enhancing our ability to deliver more comprehensive, comparable, and actionable human capital insights.

Together, we now provide the world’s largest human capital database — over 1,800 unique data points across millions of companies — setting a new global benchmark for human capital insights that are comprehensive, comparable, and actionable.

You say that “people are the common denominator.” What does that mean in the context of business strategy, and why do you believe human capital will define the next era of corporate sustainability and value creation?

Every business outcome — good or bad — is the result of human decisions. Board members, executives, and employees collectively shape performance, innovation, and resilience. While it’s not new that people are the common denominator, what’s new is our ability to quantify and benchmark human capital performance. For the first time, we can quantify how people drive value and risk, transforming human capital into a measurable, investable asset. As markets increasingly connect human capital performance to cost of capital, risk, and long-term value, the ability to understand and manage people will define corporate sustainability and competitiveness for decades to come.

For more insights on Denominator’s data and reports, visit www.denominator.com or explore our latest human capital insights at https://www.denominator.com/insights.

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