Jonas
Bengtsson

Twenty years in sustainability, most of them building Edge Impact from a small consultancy into a global purpose-led firm of 100+ people.

Now focused on advisory board roles, technical review, and senior counsel arrangements close to the work.

Built & Scaled
Edge Impact. Co-founder and CEO. Startup to 100+ people across four countries. Acquired by RSK Group
Current Roles
Special Advisor at Edge Impact. Advisory roles with Rebuilt, Circlr Tech, UNEP, EPD Australasia, and NZ Green Building Council
Governance Track Record
Director and Chair across Edge Impact, BPI Rating, and Edge Latam. 20+ years across UN bodies, standards committees, and industry boards
Technical
Carbon strategy, sustainability measurement, product transparency, circular economy, and sustainability tech

How I Can Help

Whether you need sustainability credibility at board level, independent technical review, or senior counsel close to the live decisions you're working through.

Advisory Boards & NED

Sustainability governance, climate risk oversight, and the credibility to challenge assumptions at board level.

Technical Advisor & Reviewer

Independent technical review across carbon strategy, sustainability measurement, and product transparency. Senior depth when defensibility matters.

Senior Counsel on Retainer

Strategic input close to the work. Independent perspective on live issues, complementary to delivery teams already in place.

Speaking & Thought Leadership

Substance with levity. Keynotes, panels, and executive workshops on sustainability governance and scaling purpose-driven companies.

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What Others Say

Recommendations from colleagues, clients, and collaborators.

"Jonas's vision and passion for a more sustainable world, his deep expertise in technical sustainability, as well as his character and integrity, are exemplary and of the absolute highest order."

Bryan Sheehan Managing Director, North America, Edge Impact via LinkedIn

"Jonas is one of the smartest people I've had the pleasure to work with. Quietly brilliant, he has consistently blended deep thinking, practical know how and a can do spirit to make an impact on our planet."

Fergus Stoddart Director, Strategy and Growth, Nibble via LinkedIn

"I worked with Jonas for nearly 8 years, and can honestly say he's the definition of authentic leadership. He's someone that is trustworthy and trusting, providing his team with the vision he wants to realise and allowing others to find their own way of making those things happen."

Richard Griffiths Global Head of Growth, Edge Impact via LinkedIn

"One of the god fathers of sustainability. Making sure that the circular bio-economy and the sustainable world we need happens. Having watched him over the last 10 years I'm glad we are in his hands."

Mark Rogers CEO, New Forests Asset Management via LinkedIn

Operating Principles

I've never met a founder who described growing a business as easy or linear. Most get ten things wrong, constantly experimenting and adapting, for every win. These are a selection of my operating principles, most of them gained from what was hard, not from where I could line up homeruns.

"Complementary skills aren't enough. Direction has to be shared. The test is specific decisions under pressure, not shared philosophy."

"Two perspectives looking at the same decision see different things. That's the most valuable thing a board can provide."

"Speed and competitive tension are the only real leverage. If they think you've got nowhere else to go, you don't have a deal."

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Get in Touch

Open to non-executive director roles, advisory board positions, technical advisor and reviewer engagements, senior counsel arrangements on retainer, and speaking.