Jyoti Banerjee
Jyoti Banerjee is a Research Fellow with HfS Research and a partner in Fronesys, a new sustainability advisory company.
He helps organizations understand their environmental, social and governance impacts, and tie that to the more traditional techniques and metrics they use to make business decisions. Jyoti is also a director of KiteBlue, a consultancy specializing in the ICT sector. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted with many of the world’s leading ICT companies, notably Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Great Plains, Navision, JD Edwards, Sage, Coda, SAP, BEA Systems, IBM and Unit4. He chaired the assessment of e-commerce regulation for the UK Cabinet Office and was a member of the Better Regulation Task Force in the UK for a number of years. He has led the assessments and evaluations of a number of EC ICT projects for the European Commission.
Jyoti has done a number of projects in the sustainability space, including the specification and creation of one of the world’s first CSR reporting products, and the ground-up conception and specification of a sustainability management software application. He also helped Trucost, the company with the world’s largest data store of corporate environmental impacts; create a new business strategy to provide environmental impact data to corporate companies.
Jyoti is deeply involved in the software start-up space as well – including acting as a network partner for Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative, which covers 30,000 software companies around the world. Over a thousand software start-ups have been through the Innovation Academy that Jyoti helped put together for the Microsoft BizSpark program. Jyoti also founded some leading magazine titles in the business technology space, including the first European ERP and CRM magazines.
Jyoti is on the investment board of Ibex International, a venture fund that invests in medium-sized ethical businesses in emerging markets, and is also on the board of Interserve, a charity employing around 1000 people, working in some of the poorest parts of the world.
