Ashoke Ganguli Elected to Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Pinnacle Award is recognition for "Outstanding Contributions to the Cleaning Industry and the (OS1) Program." It is also the only award in the cleaning industry that is recognized by representative benchmarking organizations managing cleaning operations on a peer review basis.
The nearly 175 organizations and several hundred leaders who have attended Janitor University have been polled and selected Ashoke Ganguli, by secret ballot, to honor his industry-wide contributions.
Ganguli is the Director of Auxiliary Services at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He directs the operations of the longest running (OS1) cleaning program. His program has won several cleaning industry and environmental cleaning awards.
Under his leadership, the (OS1) Boot Camp Program, the Retuning Management program, (OS1) third party audits and the (OS1) Floor Care program were developed and beta-tested for all program users. In 2004, Ganguli and the Auxiliary Services department hosted the (OS1) Users Symposium. In 2007, the Auxiliary Services department opened a state-of-the-art computer assisted (OS1) training facility for custodial operations. Ashoke has two master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts and is a graduate of Janitor University.
Ashoke will be presented the Pinnacle Award at the Cleaning Industry Awards Banquet during the (OS1) Users Symposium in Durango, CO, on Monday, August 18. Presentation of the award will be by last year's honoree, ProTeam the Vacuum Company founder Larry Shideler. ProTeam is the original innovator of the lightweight backpack vacuum cleaner, an invention that soon became a global phenomenon in the commercial cleaning industry for ergonomic efficiency, healthy cleaning benefits and prolonging the life of carpeting. Today, ProTeam manufactures 18 different vacuums for all cleaning applications.