Meet The Founder

Hi, I’m Keri, founder of The CleanOps Collective.

I hold a CIC certification, a PhD in materials science with a specialization in coatings, and a background in biochemical engineering. That combination is the foundation of everything I do, because the problems I work on aren't purely clinical, or purely chemical, or purely operational. They sit at the intersection of all three, and the people who only speak one language tend to miss what the others reveal.

For more than 20 years I've worked at the intersection of science, infection prevention, and commercialization. On the technology side, I've helped antimicrobial innovators navigate the gap between promising data and real-world adoption, pressure-testing claims, identifying where technologies truly fit, and building the commercial infrastructure that moves novel science into the hands of buyers who trust it. On the facility side, I work directly with healthcare organizations, animal research programs, and environmental services teams on the practical problem of making environmental hygiene programs actually perform, not just comply.

I started CleanOps Collective because I kept seeing the same pattern from both directions. Strong technologies failing because execution broke down. Strong facilities failing because the training and decision support they needed didn't exist. The work is the same in both cases: translating what the science actually says into something the people responsible for execution can use.

If you're building something at the intersection of antimicrobial science and real-world performance, or if you're running a facility where the gap between your documentation and your outcomes is quietly frustrating you, you're in the right place.

I'm based in the Chicago area. You can reach me at keri@cleanopscollective.com or find my field notes on environmental hygiene and disinfection science at Field Notes: Infection Prevention on Substack.