As founder and CEO of iGuard PPC, Kim Gay’s mission is focused on improving overall health through better infection prevention and control.
iGuard PPC provides infection prevention products and services that are effective in helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. The COVID-19 virus is highly contagious and can live on surfaces for up to 3 days. iGuard’s electrostatic spraying equipment will provide 100% coverage of our disinfectant that will go into the nooks and crannies where bacteria and viruses hide. It’s FDA approved for food surfaces and because it’s green, it’s safe for people and pets! Last week, Fire House #1 on Spalding Drive in Sandy Springs, was disinfected with Kim’s product.
A Georgia native who’s lived in Sandy Springs for 22 years, Kim graduated from Georgia College & State with a marketing degree and a job in sales for Proctor & Gamble. Then, while selling specialty beds to hospitals and nursing homes, she saw an opportunity and her research confirmed, that there was not a dependable provider of nursing home equipment. She formed a company to meet that need and “in 2007, just before the market crash, sold the $5 million company, to a national player.” She began consulting in the health care field while “researching what is going to be the next big thing in healthcare- and it always came back to infection prevention.”
Her research led to an antimicrobial coating product in Florida, developed by two brothers- one a scientist, the other a marketer- their focus was getting rid of mold on tomatoes, a huge Florida crop. Kim saw other possibilities and did further research. She invested in the product and started a research study at Bud Terrace – a skilled nursing home that’s part of the Emory Health Care System, spraying the nursing home for the first time in 2012. (In the beginning Kim did the spraying.) The result? Infection numbers went down drastically and her product is still being used. Then Kim found a sporicidal disinfectant that kills spores (which are the most difficult to eradicate) that is also green and kills Covid-19. Now, that’s a second part of her company’s process that protects against infection for up to one year.
Her dog Piper, a flat-coat retriever, helps her stay sane
