Verite Capital Partners, a leading strategic advisory and investment firm, has appointed Indian American entrepreneur Sumit Majumdar as Vice Chairman, Chief Sustainability Officer, and Operating Partner to oversee an international initiative to establish more than one million green jobs globally.
The appointment represents a significant expansion of the firm’s institutional commitment to global environmental sustainability, large-scale industrial job creation, and economic development for underserved populations, the Stamford, Connecticut based firm announced.
In his new role, Majumdar will oversee an international initiative to establish more than one million green jobs globally while reducing worldwide carbon emissions by one percent, scaling subsequent operations systematically within that same ratio.
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“The metric-driven target is to build an infrastructure capable of mobilizing 100 million individuals to secure environmental viability for subsequent generations,” Majumdar stated.
Highlighting Majumdar’s strategic value to the firm, Don Jones, Chairman and Managing Partner of Verite Capital Partners, stated, “Sumit brings vision and direction to Verite in terms of economically viable green initiatives for employment, energy, and agriculture which results in the empowerment of the communities Verite serves.”
Following a highly successful 20-year tenure as President of Buffalo Biodiesel Inc., Majumdar is joining Verite to have an even larger environmental impact at a global level. In this new capacity, Verite’s strategic and financial commitment to Buffalo Biodiesel will actively increase both domestically and internationally.
“Don and I share an identical, uncompromising objective regarding the advancement of humanity,” Majumdar explained. “Our collaborative mission is to achieve large-scale environmental remediation and structurally protect underserved and marginalized communities. This alignment of purpose provides the ultimate return on my investment of time and expertise.”
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The execution of this global strategy is backed by Verite’s institutional foundation. Managing $7 billion in current obligations and over $20 billion in committed investments, the firm is uniquely positioned to deploy capital at a scale maximizing long-term global impact.
Majumdar brings expertise in industrial scaling, circular economy frameworks, and advanced material science to Verite. Having grown Buffalo Biodiesel into a major multi-state enterprise serving over 30,000 locations, he prevented significant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions through localized waste-to-energy systems.
He is the architect behind “Project Green Logic”—a carbon-negative industrial hub and advanced materials research center—and has engineered international waste-to-energy frameworks across Ghana, Nigeria, and Mexico. He remains a key proponent of utilizing the GWP20 accounting standard to ensure rigorous regulatory and climate impact accuracy.
Together, Jones and Majumdar are positioning Verite at the forefront of the global green transition, demonstrating that high-level corporate finance can be systematically leveraged to achieve environmental stability and equitable global opportunity, according to the release.