Ben Herskowitz is a Senior Managing Director in within FTI Consulting’s ESG & Sustainability Advisory Solutions practice. Mr. Herskowitz has extensive experience providing counsel to pre-IPO and public company management teams seeking to develop or enhance their existing ESG and sustainability strategy and associated execution efforts. His experience includes crafting complex sustainability strategies with various objectives in mind, including meeting expectations of the investment community as it relates to reporting and regulatory preparedness and compliance. Most recently, Mr. Herskowitz educated the Nominating & Governance committee of a Fortune 500 food company on regulatory and landscape trends and guided a leading lifestyle brand on refreshing its corporate-wide sustainability goals.

As a senior member of FTI’s Global ESG and Sustainability Advisory Solutions practice, co-leader leader of the firm’s Global ESG Regulatory Working Group, and member of the ESG Executive Steering Committee, Mr. Herskowitz leads clients through complex sustainability initiatives including setting relevant targets, improving data tracking capabilities to enhance go-forward reporting, and navigating the interoperability of various standards, competitive pressures, and regulation.

Prior to joining FTI in 2017, Mr. Herskowitz was in Corporate Development for a PE-backed startup innovating at the intersection of consumer lending and renewable energy.  There, Mr. Herskowitz helped develop corporate messaging, aided in a $200M+ series-A fundraising, and helped design and implement a post-merger company-wide scalability plan. Mr. Herskowitz began his career in investment banking with BB&T’s Windsor Group, an Aerospace, Defense, and Government Contracting-focused sell-side M&A group. 

Mr. Herskowitz holds a B.S. in Finance from Wake Forest University and is certified by the IFRS’ Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).