​​The recipient of the 2025 Cornell Hospitality Innovator Award is Cindy Estis Green ’79, CEO and co-founder of Kalibri Labs, LLC, a hospitality platform that increases hotel value by identifying the most profitable revenue mix and driving smarter hotel real estate investments. The award will be presented at the Cornell Hospitality Icon and Innovator Awards Celebration on June 3, 2025, in New York City.

“We are so proud to honor Cindy and her extraordinary impact on our industry,” said Kate Walsh, the Dimond Family Dean of the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. “Cindy’s vision for reframing the concept of revenue, and our industry’s related measurement systems, makes her the ideal recipient of this year’s Innovator Award.”

Estis Green has been a data analytics and technology pioneer in the hospitality industry since her career began. At Kalibri, she continues to innovate, focused on optimizing revenue based on a hotel’s most profitable mix and equipping the real estate community with precise market insights for smarter discovery and more accurate underwriting.

Read more about Cindy Estis Green ’79 and the 2025 Cornell Hospitality Innovator award on the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business website.

Alison Fromme is a writer for the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.