Peter Ashkin

Chairman

Throughout his career with some of the most successful, visible, and innovative global corporations, Peter Ashkin has been a leader and master problem-solver, working in organizations facing rapid change and intense competition in uncertain economic times.

He is president of Peter Ashkin Consulting, where he works with high-tech start-up companies. He has served as president of Technology Group for CanWest Mediaworks, Canada's largest media company; as president of Product Strategy for AOL; as senior vice president and chief technology officer of Gateway Computer; and in executive management positions at both Toshiba and Apple Computer.

Peter earned a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Stephen Ashkin

Chief Executive Officer

Stephen Ashkin is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and a leader of the Green Cleaning Movement where he is often thought of as the "Father of Green Cleaning." Currently he serves as President of The Ashkin Group, Executive Director of the Green Cleaning Network, cofounder of Green Cleaning University and CEO of Sustainability Dashboard Tools, LLC - all of which play important roles in his efforts to move the global cleaning industry from green to sustainable.

Ashkin has been working in the cleaning industry since 1981 where he has held key technical and management positions for leading commercial and consumer products companies, and has worked on the issue of "green" cleaning since 1990. He has extensive experience working throughout the entire supply chain from leading product manufacturers to product distributors to service providers to building owners and facility managers. In addition, Ashkin also works extensively with market influencers such as environmental and health advocates, labor unions, media, governments, policy-makers, standard setters and others which have given him deep insights into how the marketplace can be used to drive health and environmental improvements.

Among Ashkin's many awards include recognition from the National Performance Review for his help launching the President's Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program, an Excellence Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency for his work to protect children from environmental threats, and the Green Building Advocate of the Year from the Leonardo Academy for bringing Green Cleaning to LEED-EB.

Cynthia Schultz

Chief Operating Officer

Cynthia Schultz is the Chief Operating Officer for the Sustainability Dashboard. Schultz is an experienced Web Engineer. She began conducting a needs assessment, gather requirements, and developing specifications to create the Sustainability Dashboard in early 2008.

Formerly, Schultz was the Senior Director of Communication at the Indiana University Alumni Association where she designed and implemented a Web 2.0 solution for managing alumni services and related business operations. In addition, she was a designer of corporate on-line training courses at Option Six, Inc., and a business owner and managing partner of the Story Group, Inc. Schultz received a master's degree in Instructional Systems and Technology from the Indiana University School of Education in 2002.

Chris Haynes

Chief Technology Officer

Christopher Haynes is the Chief Technology Officer for the Sustainability Dashboard. Dr. Haynes is Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science of the Indiana University School of Informatics, where he served on the faculty from 1982 to 2011, including a decade as Director of Undergraduate Studies. He has 30 years experience with study, development, and teaching of computer languages, with emphasis on the design and use of powerful abstraction mechanisms, including: co-authoring a popular textbook on programming languages, chairing the IEEE committee that standardized the Scheme programming languages, and 18 refereed publications. As Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Haynes has primary responsibility for all aspects of information technology including planning, design, development, deployment, and maintenance of dashboard tools offered by the project, and related systems.

Dr. Haynes received a Ph.D. in 1982 and a M.S. in 1981 in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. In 1973, he earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has been Director of Undergraduate Studies, Computer Science Dept. at Indiana University Bloomington since 1995.

Nancy Geisler

Executive Director, Business Development

Nancy C. Geisler joined the Sustainability Dashboard in April 2011 as Executive Director of Business Development.

Nancy was formerly Vice President of Sustainability at Unisource Worldwide, Inc. a $5 billion multinational logistics and distribution company.  During her tenure, Unisource was recognized by Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine as a Green Supply Chain (2010), by Forest Ethics in their Green Grades reports (2009, 2010) and as a significant contributor to the Healthy Schools Campaign (2008, 2009).

While at Unisource, Nancy, along with Rich Hall of Rock-Tenn, Inc., were the leaders in establishing the Sustainability Leadership Forum – Atlanta, and she serves on the leadership team of the High Performance, Healthy Schools committee of the Georgia chapter of the US Green Building Council.

Nancy has more than 25 years of marketing and consulting experience, including product and business management, communications, business development, strategic sourcing, business planning, sales and market research.

She earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA; and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, in Bryn Mawr, PA.  She is also certified as a LEED-AP BD&C by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Elizabeth Crosbie

Business Support Manager

Elizabeth Crosbie joined the Sustainability Dashboard team in July 2009 to serve as a visual designer and a user experience specialist.

Crosbie is finishing her M.S. in Immersive Mediated Environments from the Indiana University Department of Telecommunications. She also holds a B.A. in Journalism with a concentration in public relations from Indiana University. She has been extending her talents in visual and interactive media design through her work for the Dashboard and for The Ashkin Group.