The Team

We, The CSR Company are one of the leading consulting firms committed to add value to the businesses of our clients by embedding the principles of corporate social responsibility into their core strategies, policies, programs and actions.

Being devoted to all those organizations who want to do the right thing, we work to change them into more powerful, accountable, engaged and profitable businesses.

Meet the CSR Company Team:

Martin Neureiter
President
Vienna, Austria

Martin has long term experience in CSR and founded the Company first in 2007. As Task Group Chair of ISO (International Organization of Standards) he was responsible for the implementation and communication part of the ISO 26000 Standard on Social Responsibility. Martin is author of a widely used CSR book and program director of the MBA „International Corporate Social Responsibility Management“ at the Ferdinand Porsche University of Applied Sciences, Austria.. He lectures CSR at St. Gallen Management Institute (Switzerland) and coaches at CEO level.

Mag. Christian Katholnigg, CMC
Managing Director
Innsbruck, Austria

Christian is a founding member of the company and holds a university degree in economics. He has been consulting clients in the field of CSR and management systems for more than a decade. He is expert and auditor i.e. for EMAS, ISO 14001 and 50001, OHSAS 18000, SA 8000 and designated expert to the Austrian Standards Institute for the development of CSR and SR Standards, i.e. ONR 192500. He lectures CSR at the University of Applied Sciences Vienna, Austria.

Jyotsna Belliappa
Head-Strategic Alliances

Jyotsna Belliappa is a social auditor and corporate social responsibility professional with 25+years’ experience. She has worked with multinational companies like The Gap Inc and Marks & Spencer plc and headed their Social Compliance programmes and M&S Plan A delivery for South Asia. Her expertise lies in implementing ISO 26000 guidelines on social responsibility to arrive at financial and non-financial returns on investment on social projects.

Subject matter expert for social compliance at Ernst and Young, Aditya Birla Nuvo and Marks & Spencer, Texport Overseas, Price Waterhouse Cooper, American Eagle, Freedom Fund and Geneva Global.

Her role in our company is to develop strategic alliance – an arrangement between partners/companies that have decided to share resources with The CSR Company to undertake specific, mutually beneficial project by developing more synergies in our investments in branding, social media and other communication and marketing materials.

Patrick Neureiter
CSR Project Manager
Vienna, Austria

Patrick holds a university degree in economics and has extensive experience as a project & event manager. His focus with the CSR Company is the management of several international CSR projects.

Goran Golik
CSR Branding Expert, Consultant
Vienna, Austria

Goran has extensive international experience as a Brand Strategist and Creative Director. He has received more than 130 advertising and marketing awards. His focus with the CSR Company is the visualisation and brand communication of CSR. He lectures international advertising and marketing as well as corporate and communications design at several Universities of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria. 

Mag. Birgit Katholnigg
CSR Controlling Expert, Consultant
Innsbruck, Austria

Holding a university degree in economics Birgit is an expert on sustainable controlling.  Her long term experience in the field of corporate funding and accounting provides excellent support to our clients by linking controlling to sustainability.

Mag. Barbara Kolsek
CSR Marketing Strategist
Vienna, Austria

Barbara has long term work experience for major global brands in Central Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.  She has a deep understanding for combining CSR with marketing needs in different markets and focuses on the integration of CSR objectives into marketing, advertising and brand communication.

Lucian Ilea
IT Consultant
Alba Iulia, Romania

Lucian has an extensive experience in IT Consultancy and web-development. As part of CSR Company, he is responsible with our IT infrastructure and takes care of the development and maintenance of our software/web projects. He is also the founder of SIA Vision, a company that provides a wide range of IT services for a number of clients world-wide.