About Us
The Growth Pipeline Company
Powering clients to a future shaped by growth
Message From The Chairman
Our Core Values
Olympic Spirit
- Are result oriented
- Take extreme pride in what we do
- Have a strong passion for winning in the marketplace
- Reflect excellence in our work and social interactions
- Take complete personal responsibility
- Treat company’s reputation as our own
- Exhibit personal drive to lead and motivate others
- Work hard and also have fun
Everyone Serves Clients
- Think and act with our clients in mind
- Collaborate with our clients as our partners, and commit ourselves to provide the best advice to positively impact their business goals
- Aim to exceed our clients’ expectations by delivering top quality deliverables
- Handle any information provided by clients with utmost care and confidentiality
- Respect our clients’ time – meetings, workshops, events, deliverables etc
- Respond to client queries and concerns with timely, clear and concise information
One Global Team
- Treat each other with respect
- Leverage the strengths of our colleagues and collaboratively participate in potential market opportunities
- Strive to achieve group goals by continually learning from one another through teamwork and sharing
- Respect and value each other’s time, opinions, perspectives, skills and experiences
- Do not discriminate or show favouritism
- Do not spread negativity or partake in spreading rumours
Provocatively Challenging
- Value disruptive leadership
- Have a healthy disregard for the status quo
- Seek continuous self-improvement for ourselves and for our team members
- Provide constant and honest feedback
- Turn our challenges into opportunities
Sense of Urgency
- Believe urgency is a way of life for us, every day
- Are focused on the present and yet we keep an eye on the long-term
- Ensure our response levels exceed expectations
- Articulate our goals clearly and know our priorities
- Are willing to stretch our comfort zone and embrace change
Being Significant
- Leverage our research to innovate for a better world
- Create rich and meaningful connections between our business and communities
- Care about conducting our business in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner
- Value diversity in workplace
- Encourage better behaviour for a better world
Frost & Sullivan Institute
Frost & Sullivan Institute (FSI) is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit dedicated to utilizing business practices to address global priorities Leveraging our community of experts and best practices to address global priorities. We believe that by using a Socratic approach, we can truly accelerate innovation to zero (Zero illiteracy, zero disparity, zero disease, zero poverty, zero degradation and zero hunger).
What makes us One Frost?
Our vision
Become the Growth Pipeline Company
Our Aspirational Ideal
Accelerating “Innovate to Zero”
Our Value Proposition
Maximizing Future Growth Potential
We believe that empathy, compassion, curiosity, and commitment will drive extraordinary outcomes for our clients and lifelong learning for our team members.
Company Culture
Frost & Sullivan is built by a diverse team across the Globe. As One Frost we create an unstoppable, exceptional, committed team that creates a powerful engine that maximizes our future growth by providing an unlimited growth pipeline for our clients.
We’re building a place of belonging. To create the most inspirational company in the world we must be a place where employees can do their best work and be their best selves. We prioritize diversity and believe in a culture rooted in collaboration, growth, and mobility.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
Frost & Sullivan announces the formation of the Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Alliance to take action against discrimination, injustice, and inequality
Our DNA
We are very proud of the history of Frost & Sullivan and in 2021 we celebrated our 60th anniversary. You can see an interactive timeline below. The company was founded in New York over lunch by Lori Frost & Dan Sullivan, relocating our head office to Texas.
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Pipeline Company, has spent more than 60 years partnering with clients to develop transformational growth strategies by focusing on innovation and growth opportunities driven by disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, emerging markets, and new business models.
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1961
Seeking to bring together the brightest business minds in the world to track emerging trends, Frost & Sullivan was founded by Lore A. Frost and Daniel M. Sullivan in New York, NY
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1973
Frost & Sullivan begins expansion into the European market, beginning with the opening of our London headquarters followed quickly by an office in Frankfurt to address the DACH market -
1980
Frost & Sullivan develops a unique measurement-based system to qualify & quantify market and growth opportunities, resulting in the creation of the Market Engineering Research & Consulting division -
1992
Seeing opportunities to address Francophone markets, Frost & Sullivan establishes a presence in Paris and begins serving clients in French-speaking regions -
1994
Mountain View, CA regional HQ opens, combining Frost & Sullivan’s research, consulting, and sales teams with industry verticals that are powering the rise of Silicon Valley -
1997
In response to requests from major players in southeast Asia, Frost & Sullivan opens a HQ in Singapore and begins addressing regional markets -
1998
Frost & Sullivan continues serving the broader Asian market with the opening of the Mumbai, India office to serve Indian and South Asian customers
Our first foray into the Chinese market is the opening of our Beijing office, the first of many scheduled to be opened in mainland China
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1999
Frost & Sullivan expands team into a San Antonio, TX regional HQ, which serves as the home for teams that serve the entire North America market across all industries -
2000
Frost expands its presence in the APAC region by opening our Kuala Lumpur office to cater to Malaysian clients
Frost & Sullivan establishes a presence in Shanghai, the dynamic commercial capital of China
Our Customer Analytics group is created and housed in our Toronto, Canada office, and empowered to provide customer perspectives and insights for our global client base
Oxford is selected to be the hub of Frost & Sullivan’s second research and analytics center, harnessing the power of the Oxford community’s research talent to be deployed by our global analyst team
Best Practices Awards launched in order to create a structured approach to recognize best-in-class companies and recognize them for their achievements
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2001
To support our growing global business, a Global Innovation Center is established in Chennai to better service our global operations
Frost & Sullivan acquires Technical Insights in order to develop deep insights into emerging technologies that can create new growth opportunities
Sydney office opens to serve Frost & Sullivan customers in the ANZ market
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2002
Frost & Sullivan opens office in Bengaluru, India to serve the growing technology market in India and connect it more strategically with Silicon Valley -
2003
New Seoul office drives business with Frost & Sullivan clients in the Korean market
A Global Innovation Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina is set up to support our North America operations
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2004
Frost & Sullivan opens Mexico City office to support expansion into the Latin and South American markets
Frost & Sullivan increases services offerings to global clients with the launch of Growth Partnership Services as well as new country-specific and industry-specific forecasting products
To offer flexible service models for our customers, Frost & Sullivan introduces subscriptions in addition to on-demand report purchasing
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2005
Frost & Sullivan enters the sub-Saharan African market with the opening of an office in Cape Town, South Africa.
GIL – the Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership – is launched to create opportunities for clients to work collaboratively to share best practices and network within industries
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2006
Bangkok office established by Frost & Sullivan to serve the Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodian markets
The opening of a Dubai office marks Frost & Sullivan’s first presence in the Middle East, primarily to serve the GCC market
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2007
Reach into European markets is deepened with the opening of a Milan office to better serve the Italian market as well as an additional French office in Sophia Antipolis to build connections to Europe’s high-tech sector and enter the North African market
Frost & Sullivan opens an office in Taipei to continue serving the greater Chinese market and service Taiwanese customers
Frost & Sullivan’s Global Innovation Centre is established in Warsaw to support both Western European markets as well as to enter the Russian and CIS markets
Launch of our Growth Team Membership Services that offers a best practices tool kit that supports each of our proven 10 Growth Processes
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2008
In order to work with clients seeking to IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Frost & Sullivan opens another Chinese office in Hong Kong
Jakarta office opens to serve an emerging and growing client base in the Indonesian market
In order to meet the unique needs of one of the world’s greatest economic powers, Frost & Sullivan opens a Tokyo office to drive business with some of the world’s largest companies
Frost launches the Visionary Innovation Group (VIG) in order to identify and highlight the impact of global megatrends on global businesses
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2009
Frost deepens its partnership with industry leaders by forming an alliance with the Strategy and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Association -
2010
In order to create partnerships with an expanding Israeli startup ecosystem, Frost opens an office in Tel Aviv
Launch of the Top 50 Technologies deliverable, a unique industry-leading analysis of the most promising technologies that disrupt and enable growth
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2011
Frost launches the Brand & Demand value proposition, an integral part of an expanded mission that also includes Vision & Strategy and Technology/IP -
2013
Frost consolidates Client Business Units to expand business with clients in each vertical market by building a central repository of subject matter expertise and capabilities -
2014
In order to meet the needs of our growing automotive client base, our Detroit, MI office opens to serve the Big 3 auto manufacturers and their supply chains
Frost deepens its commitment to the Chinese market with the opening of our Shenzhen office, which helps serve an increasing client base in mainland China
Frost launches the Intelligent Mobility Event in Europe, the premier event building a community of thought leaders in the European mobility industry
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2015
Knowledge as a Service (today known as Growth Analytics) launches to helps support our clients with custom on-going and on-demand solutions throughout the year -
2016
Our second global innovation center in South Asia opens in Kathmandu, Nepal in order to support our global Best Practices team
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia office opens, with a primary focus on supporting family fund offices and government institutions
Launch of our Manufacturing Process Consulting service, a unique assessment model for manufacturing excellence designed with the help of our customers
Irvine, CA office opens to build relationships with the growing industrial, automotive, aerospace, and defense industries in Southern California
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2017
Frost launches Growth Councils, an interactive leader partnership model that prepares our clients to drive growth agendas within an organization
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2018
With the launch of Innovation Generator, Frost introduces the first of many next-generation data analytics platforms that help our customers make sense of the mountains of data that govern their business
Frost leverages the power of collaboration with the launch of Growth Pipeline Roundtables, which helps customers interact with industry experts and peers to identify growth strategies
Frost launches an AI-driven growth analytics platform that is designed to generate growth opportunities for our customers and identify Companies to Action
Frost opens an office in Nanjing, China in order to partner with local government to support research and innovation in artificial intelligence
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2019
Looking toward the next 60 years, Frost & Sullivan refocuses our vision and brand as the “Growth Pipeline Company”
Launched Frost Radar, a proprietary framework that helps clients benchmark their growth prospects in comparison with their competitors and industry-leading companies
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2020
For our customers seeking an all-in-one solution, we launched Growth Partnership as a Service (GPaaS), a continuous process that drives sustainable growth for our clients
Executive Board
David Frigstad
Chairman and Founder
Wyman Bravard
Director and Founder
Krishna Srinivasan
Global Managing Partner
Aroop Zutshi
Global Managing Partner
Regional Leaders
Iain Jawad
Regional Leader of Europe
Shivaji Das
Regional Leader of Asia-Pacific
Robin Joffe
Regional Leader of Middle East, North Africa, South Asia
Our locations
With over 1200 experts, growth advisors and visionaries throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, Frost & Sullivan provides critical solutions to support clients growth strategies.
