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About the Cooler Team

The Cooler team is working hard to automate and democratize climate action in a way that creates margin-building opportunities for small to mid-sized businesses. We believe deeply that if we all pitch in just a little, we can reverse global warming and its harmful impacts.

We're dedicated to enabling businesses to take real action that will make a real difference, and help our customers make deeper connections with climate-conscious consumers.

Our Team

  • Luke Bayas

    Luke BayasLinkedIn

    Co-Founder, Dev Architect

    Luke is a hands-on software architect passionate about leveraging technology to provide a solution to climate change. He has extensive experience building resilient and extensible distributed systems across varying cloud architectures.

  • Charlie Crystle

    Charlie CrystleLinkedIn

    CEO & Co-founder

    Charlie is a serial entrepreneur who has built social impact companies for over 25 years. He has a passion for solving big problems with simple, affordable solutions, particularly those that catalyze positive change.

  • Michel Gelobter

    Michel GelobterLinkedIn

    Board Chair & Co-founder

    The original architect of the Cooler caorbon calculator, Michel has footprinted everything Walmart, the General Services Administration, and eBay sell, several times over. Before that, he helped write the climate laws in California and over a dozen other states, wrote the first report on African-Americans and climate change, and co-founded the Climate Justice movement. Michel is Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Center at Yale.

Our Advisors

  • Gifford Pinchot III

    Gifford Pinchot IIILinkedIn

    CEO of Pinchot & Company

    Co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, co-creator of the first MBA in Sustainable Business, environmental consultant

  • Sondra ToskeyLinkedIn

    Enviro-tech Consultant

    With 15 years working in sustainability and carbon accounting, Sondra specializes in bridging the gap between engineering, business, and sustainability teams.

  • Tim AbbottLinkedIn

    Executive Director of Housatonic Valley Association

    Land conservationist, nonprofit lobbyist, easement strategist, former board member of GiftWorks.

  • Jon DornLinkedIn

    CEO at Teton Gravity Research

    Sales and Marketing executive with decades in various outdoor enterprises including Outside, Inc.