AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xenex Healthcare Services, the world leader in UV room disinfection systems for healthcare facilities, today announced the addition of two highly experienced executives to its management team. Enda Flynn has joined the company as executive vice president of business development and Juan A. Gutierrez has been named chief financial officer (CFO).
“Over the past 10 years I’ve had the good fortune to work with Enda and Juan and I am thrilled that they have joined Xenex. Adding these energetic, strategic and highly motivated individuals to our team will enable us to continue to maximize Xenex’s growth,” said Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex. “Capable of disinfecting a hospital room in just five minutes for $3, our technology offers the fastest, safest, and most cost-effective method for disinfecting healthcare facilities. With Enda and Juan’s fine judgment and leadership, we will help more hospitals solve their infection control challenges.”
Xenex’s portable room disinfection system uses pulsed xenon ultraviolet light to destroy viruses, bacteria and bacterial spores in the patient environment without contact or chemicals. Uniquely designed for ease of use and portability, a hospital’s environmental services staff can operate the Xenex device without disrupting hospital operations or requiring the use of expensive chemicals. The Xenex system will disinfect dozens of rooms per day, so hospitals use the system continuously to reduce contamination levels throughout their facilities.
As executive vice president of business development for Xenex, Enda Flynn is responsible for developing and managing the company’s fast-growing strategic alliances, corporate development operations, sales operations and other areas critical to Xenex’s growth. Flynn spent many years in management roles at AT&T, where he led numerous product development initiatives and strategic alliances, including AT&T’s relationship with Yahoo!. He co-founded the Connell Curtis Group, “The Positioning Experts,” which provides business consulting services and invests in startups. Flynn also previously managed all aspects of the AT&T account for EMC Consulting and served as BusinessEdge Solutions’ broadband competency lead. Flynn earned his MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic and electrical engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland.
As chief financial officer of Xenex, Juan Gutierrez is responsible for directing and overseeing all aspects of the company’s finance and accounting functions. Prior to joining Xenex, Gutierrez spent over 11 years with Rackspace Hosting, Inc., where he served as a vice president in its finance organization and held several leadership positions, including corporate controller and CFO of one its strategic business units. Gutierrez also advises senior executives of developing organizations seeking to optimize their business processes and financial performance. A member of the advisory board of the School of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he received a bachelor’s degree from University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Xenex systems have proven to be effective against a variety of the most dangerous superbugs, including Clostridium difficile endospores (C. diff), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and Acinetobacter. Studies show the Xenex room disinfection system is consistently 20 times more effective than standard chemical cleaning practices. Xenex customer Cooley Dickinson Hospital recently reported 67 percent lower C. diff rates and 100 percent lower C. diff deaths and colectomy rates since adoption of Xenex’s room disinfection system in January 2011. Other customers reporting positive results from their usage of Xenex’s room disinfection system include Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center and Cone Health System in North Carolina. In comparing its HAI data from the first and second quarters of 2010 to the same period in 2011, Cone Health reported it was able to reduce the number of MRSA infections to zero in its ICUs, which saved the organization and community an estimated $2.3 million in infection-associated hospital costs.
About Xenex Healthcare Services
Xenex develops pulsed xenon UV room disinfection systems for the advanced cleaning of the patient environment in healthcare facilities. The Xenex system is the fastest, safest, most cost-effective, and easy- to-use system available today among room disinfection technologies. The Xenex mission is to significantly reduce the number of HAIs that impact the health and lives of millions of patients and their families and become the new standard method for disinfection in healthcare facilities worldwide. For more information, visit www.xenex.com.