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Dominique Surinx | CEO | Ansana

Dominique combines 20 years of pharma corporate experience with 10 years of entrepreneurship. Dominique led global pharmaceutical supply chains, performed product and technology development and executed global tech transfers, and has significant experience in manufacturing and quality control. Dominique successfully started a company in renewable energy and acquired large corporate customers on 3 continents.

Dominique holds a master’s degree in engineering and in business administration.

Ansana

Ansana is bringing an innovative surgical instrument reprocessing technology to healthcare markets in the US and Europe. With our smart medical device, corresponding data modules, and our team’s industrial process skills, Ansana is setting a new standard for patient safety, sustainability, efficiency, and service.

Yearly 310 million surgeries are performed globally, requiring > 1 billion sterile surgical instrument sets. Ansana's solution brings significant value to all stakeholders:

Patient safety: in Europe and US yearly 3 million patients are affected by Surgical Site Infections. Ansana reduces these infections with 10%.
Total cost: reduction of instrument inventory, service improvement to the operating room, human and machine capacity utilization increase, and material cost reduction, thus achieving a payback of < 1 year.
Sustainability: provides a more robust and efficient environment for healthcare workers, reduces energy and consumable usage.