Leadership Team Arthur TrapotsisPresident and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Trapotsis, President and Chief Executive Officer, joined Consolidated Sterilizer Systems in 1999. In 2008, he acquired the Company from the original founder, Mr. William A. Barnstead. Mr. Trapotsis has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience involving business development, brand building, and strategic planning. His extensive experience in the sterilizer industry has Mr. Trapotsis presenting at conferences around the U.S., promoting “green” autoclave design features as well as emerging trends in the sterilizer market. His educational background is in biotechnology and business management. Mr. Trapotsis received his BS and MS in Biochemical Engineering from Tufts University and his MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. Mr. Trapotsis is a strong advocate of finding balance between work, family, and fitness. He is the author of The Everyday Athlete: How to Balance Work, Family, and Fitness for Life. Bob YoungVice President, Operations Mr. Young brings 30 years of experience in operations, engineering, quality and finance within vertically integrated manufacturing environments to Consolidated Sterilizer Systems as Vice President of Operations. Previously, Mr. Young was the founder and President of a concept metal working business and General/Operations Manager of a leading specialty metal cutting and fabrication company. Mr. Young graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Lissa Davidson Director, Human Resources Ms. Davidson began working at Consolidated in 2000, assuming HR responsibilities in 2008. Ms. Davidson received her B.S. in Public Relations from Syracuse University, and her MBA with a Human Resources Specialization from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Ms. Davidson enjoys putting her education and years of experience at Consolidated to work for the company’s greatest resource – its people. Amit GuptaVice President, Engineering Mr. Gupta has over 15 years of experience engineering multi-disciplinary systems and brings his passion for engineering, innovation, and quality to Consolidated (where he’s been since 2007.) Prior to joining Consolidated, Mr. Gupta worked on robotics at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories and designed medical devices and scientific equipment such as novel catheters and DNA hybridization chambers for microarrays. A true engineer at heart, Mr. Gupta enjoys tinkering, fixing things by breaking them first and assembling Ikea furniture. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and from MIT with an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Steven R. van der VeenController Mr. Van der Veen is all about Value – providing insight and analysis in support of growing enterprise value. He brings formal training in the Sciences and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Early in his career, he served as a senior Corporate Planning and Development executive in several Fortune-500 sized industrial companies, both public and private. Since then, he has supported smaller manufacturing and services companies. Most recently, he has focused on the opportunity to build value in the role of contract senior Financial Executive/CFO in a number of enterprises.
7.12.23 Cordyceps Sterilization: How to Kill “The Last of Us” Parasite → In HBO’s recent adaptation of “The Last of Us,” a popular action-adventure video game, life as we know it is upended by a parasitic fungus that transforms its human hosts into zombies. The culprit? Cordyceps, a real-life genus of fungus which is best known for infecting insects (most famously ants) in much the same manner […]
6.30.23 Top 13 Sterile Processing Mistakes in Hospitals → When it comes to ensuring patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) is among the last lines of defense. It’s this department’s sole responsibility to make sure that reusable instruments and devices are properly decontaminated, sterilized, and ultimately safe to use in future procedures — protecting patients from […]
6.22.23 Sterilization vs. High-Level and Low-Level Disinfection [a 3-Point Comparison] → In a 1939 paper, microbiologist Earle H. Spaulding introduced a system for determining which medical devices and instruments needed disinfection and which ones required sterilization. In it, he proposed that critical instruments would need to be subjected to more stringent disinfection protocols than non-critical patient care items. Today, this framework is fittingly known as Spaulding […]
