Gregory Gicewicz is the President/CEO of Compliance Shark – the nation’s leading business compliance platform. A tireless advocate for increasing awareness of the significant role that having high standards in the processing of healthcare laundry, he is the former president of the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC). The HLAC’s mission is to accredit laundries processing healthcare textiles based on the highest standards for patient safety and infection prevention.  Gicewicz chaired the committee that developed the 2016 HLAC Accreditation Standards for Processing Reusable Textiles for Use in Healthcare Facilities. Additionally, he chaired the Accreditation Inspection Subcommittee, which determines, based on inspection results, which laundries are approved for HLAC Accreditation.  

Gicewicz is the former president/CEO of Sterile Surgical Systems, located in Tacoma, Washington. Sterile Surgical Systems is a full-service healthcare laundry and FDA-registered sterile surgical pack processor serving healthcare customers in the Pacific Northwest. During his time, he oversaw all business activities, including plant operations, distribution, quality assurance, maintenance, human resources, customer service, and sales and marketing. Under Gicewicz’s leadership, Sterile Surgical Systems grew revenues more than 12-fold.  

More importantly, though, the company emerged as an innovative leader in infection prevention in the healthcare textile industry. 

Gicewicz graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Physics. In his spare time, he is very active in the Seattle ice hockey community as a Level 5 USA Hockey youth coach and an owner of the Seattle Thunderbirds Hockey Club.

Gicewicz is a frequent presenter at industry events, including conferences of the Association for Linen Management (ALM), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and the Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE). He has published numerous articles in leading industry trade media, including Infection Control Today, Laundry Ledger, Healthcare Facilities Management, AHE EXPLORE, and Facility Care.  Presentation and article topics have included: the handling of pharmaceutical waste in the laundry, how environmental services can affect a hospital’s bottom line with effective linen strategy, and what healthcare professionals need to look for during a laundry visit.

Gicewicz is called upon by trade and mass media to comment about and elucidate on relevant news of the day and how it affects matters of laundry processing, the healthcare environment, and patient safety.

Prior to Sterile Surgical Systems, Gicewicz spent 14 years at Microsoft Corporation, where he held several senior roles, including Group Program Manager for Windows Live Infrastructure Operations in Redmond, Washington.