Kathy Eberwein, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Edge Group, Medical Edge Recruitment, and Global Edge Managed Solutions, is a dynamic leader with over twenty years of recruitment experience in the Global Energy Industry. Her education and work experience prior to recruitment was as a Mechanical Engineer in the power industry as well as environmental industry. 

Kathy’s engineering experience began in construction working as a Mechanical Project Engineer for the largest independent power producer at the time. She was part of a small team responsible for the construction of a $263 million co-generation facility. She continued working in project development of other new greenfield co-generation power plant facilities including project financing, permitting, construction, and engineering of multi-million-dollar projects. Following this, Kathy moved into the environmental engineering field working on complex permitting issues for hazardous waste landfills and incinerators.

Through an unusual circumstance, she stumbled onto technical recruiting and immediately discovered a passion for changing the lives of others through recruitment. Kathy was instrumental and led the initial launch and development of US operations for two of the largest global oil and gas staffing firms. Using her own experience as an engineer, combined with the best lessons learned from building two large global recruitment divisions, she ventured out on her own and created the Global Edge Consultants in April of 2008. Since 2008, the Global Edge has grown into a global operation, operating in over 20 countries, and has had turnover in excess of $500mm. Kathy is proud to have one of the first women-owned recruitment agencies in the global arena for the energy industry and continues to expand in size and global footprint. Her vision is to become the agency of choice in the global energy arena as she continues to propel the Global Edge to new levels of growth and excellence.

In 2019 Kathy founded the Doyenne Initiative, an NGO dedicated to elevating women through higher education and specialized career and leadership development, equipping the women to hold the most esteemed and executive roles in their respective fields. As they prosper, these Doyennes will be role models who influence their countries, communities, families, and generations to come.