The SOFTtribe has won a number of awards amongst which are The Millennium Excellence Awards for IT in 2005 (nominated in 2000). The company has also been featured on BBC, CNN and the IEEE magazine in the USA, amongst others.

Herman holds a number of directorships and is an Assessor of the Commercial Court, Ghana. He has won a number of personal awards including "Outstanding Ghanaian Professional" from the GPA awards, UK plus the "Distinguished Alumnus Award" from the Texas State Alumni Association and Texas State University-San Marcos, USA; the first and currently only African recipient of the award. Herman has also been a resource person/visiting speaker at the Wharton Business School, Harvard Business Schools Cambridge University, the University of Ghana, and the TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, amongst others. The BBC describes Mr Chinery-Hesse as "Africa’s Bill Gates".

Herman believes that "If Africa misses the current global IT boat there may never again be an opportunity for rapid wealth creation on the continent".