Gold Standard Preservation

What Gold Standard Preservation does

Gold Standard Preservation (GSP) is a privately held, founder-led clinical services company headquartered in Atlanta that supplies specialized organ recovery, machine perfusion, advanced preservation, and clinical training services to US transplant centers and organ procurement organizations (OPOs). The company deploys on-demand clinical teams — staffed by ATBC Certified Transplant Preservationists (CTPs) with additional credentials including Certified Surgical First Assistant (CFSA) and Certified Perioperative Blood Management Technician (CPBMT) — to support both in-state and out-of-state organ recovery fly-outs, providing surge, vacancy, PTO, and expansion coverage to programs that lack the internal bench for consistent 24/7 execution.

GSP's service portfolio is structured around four offerings: Organ Recovery & Fly-Outs for clinical staffing during recovery cases; Machine Perfusion for device-agnostic hypothermic (HMP) and normothermic (NMP) perfusion of livers and kidneys with protocol-driven monitoring, real-time decision support, and structured documentation; Advanced Preservation for ice-free, controlled-hypothermia transport and handoff support using partner-preferred devices; and Clinical Training for hands-on program buildout including SOPs, simulation drills, competency validation frameworks, and documented sign-offs. The technology stack is human-capital rather than software — proprietary protocols, training pathways, and competency thresholds form the operational IP, with teams certified across multiple perfusion device platforms to remove single-vendor dependency for partner programs.

The business model is professional services revenue on a quote-based, contact-for-pricing basis with no public rate cards. GSP engages transplant program and OPO leadership through direct enterprise outreach supported by a content-led website and an extensive educational blog covering perfusion, recovery, staffing, and transport topics. Founded by Alex Timothee (MBA, CTP, CPBMT) with co-founding leader Selma Twillie (CTP, CTBS), the company is bootstrapped with no disclosed external funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and a headcount of 1–10. GSP embeds its teams into existing surgical and perfusion workflows rather than introducing separate platforms, with pricing scaling to coverage scope, case volume, travel requirements, and contract duration.

Name

Gold Standard Preservation

Legal name

Gold Standard Preservation

Website

https://goldstandardpreservation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gold Standard Preservation is a privately held Atlanta-based clinical services firm that supplies certified transplant preservationist teams to US transplant centers and OPOs for organ recovery, machine perfusion, advanced preservation, and clinical training.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transplant Clinical Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991)

SIC

Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Transplant Specialty Hospitals (HLAFAHAE)

Keywords

• Organ recovery services
• Machine perfusion support
• Advanced organ preservation
• Transplant clinical staffing
• Clinical training programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Clinical Services - Organ Recovery Coverage: Provides on-demand clinical teams of Certified Transplant Preservationists (CTPs) to support organ recovery and preservation. Services include short-term coverage for vacancies, leave, turnover, or surge volume, as well as long-term staffing augmentation for geographic expansion or new coverage needs. Pricing is quote-based and scales with coverage requirements.
2. Machine Perfusion Services: Clinical machine perfusion coverage for both normothermic and hypothermic perfusion of livers and kidneys. Services include protocol-driven monitoring, real-time documentation of organ behavior and interventions, and trend-driven decision support throughout perfusion cases.
3. Advanced Preservation Services: Advanced ice-free preservation support using controlled hypothermia with partner programs' preferred devices. Includes device setup, conditioning, validation, packaging optimization for temperature control, chain-of-custody handling, and handoff preparation.
4. Clinical Training & Program Implementation: Hands-on program buildout support for centers developing or expanding in-house capabilities in organ recovery, perfusion, and advanced preservation. Includes role definitions, standard work documentation, quality frameworks, on-site precepting, and simulation drills.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Gold Standard Preservation supplies transplant centers and Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) with on-demand, device-agnostic clinical teams — Certified Transplant Preservationists — for organ recovery and fly-outs, hypothermic and normothermic machine perfusion of livers and kidneys, advanced ice-free preservation, and hands-on program training. Services are delivered as embedded support that aligns with each partner program's protocols, documentation standards, and operational workflows, rather than as a packaged software or hardware product.

Product overview

Gold Standard Preservation (GSP) provides a suite of specialized clinical services for transplant centers and organ procurement organizations (OPOs). The portfolio comprises four core offerings: Organ Recovery & Fly-Outs delivers on-demand certified clinical teams for organ recovery coverage; Machine Perfusion provides device-agnostic hypothermic (HMP) and normothermic (NMP) perfusion services for livers and kidneys; Advanced Preservation offers ice-free, controlled hypothermia preservation strategies; and Clinical Training provides hands-on program development and competency validation support. GSP positions itself as a device-agnostic partner that integrates into existing surgical and perfusion workflows rather than providing a single unified software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Organ Recovery & Fly-Outs On-demand clinical teams of ATBC Certified Transplant Preservationists (CTPs) supporting organ recovery and preservation for transplant centers and OPOs, providing short-term and long-term recovery coverage including in-state and out-of-state travel recovery services.
• Machine Perfusion Device-agnostic organ perfusion services covering hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) and normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) for livers and kidneys, with protocol-driven monitoring, real-time decision support, and perfusion parameter documentation for transplant centers and OPOs.
• Advanced Preservation Advanced ice-free preservation strategies using controlled hypothermia to minimize cold injury, manage temperature risk, and improve consistency from recovery through implant, utilizing partner-program preferred devices for transport and handoff.
• Clinical Training & Program Implementation Hands-on program buildout support for transplant centers scaling organ recovery and perfusion capabilities, including role-specific training pathways, SOPs and documentation templates, simulation drills, on-site precepting, and competency validation frameworks with skills checklists and signed training records.

Quantifiable outcome

• Device-agnostic coverage eliminates single-point-of-failure risk tied to one technology platform
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SpecialtyCare: SpecialtyCare is the largest US provider of perfusion and clinical staffing services to hospitals and surgery centers. It is a direct peer to GSP's perfusion and organ recovery staffing model, operating a much larger scale across similar buyer personas (hospital/clinical leadership).
• Comprehensive Care Services: Comprehensive Care Services provides perfusion and autotransfusion clinical staffing to hospitals and surgical centers. It is a direct peer in the outsourced perfusion/clinical services category that GSP operates in.
• Inventure (formerly Perfusion.com): Inventure provides perfusion management, staffing, and consulting services to hospitals and surgical programs. It is a direct peer to GSP's professional services model of supplying credentialed perfusion personnel into partner clinical workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Preservation Solutions: Preservation Solutions develops organ preservation products, including the IGL static cold storage solution used in transplant. It is an adjacent incumbent in the preservation ecosystem where GSP's advanced preservation and training services operate.
• OrganOx: OrganOx commercializes the metra normothermic machine perfusion system for liver and kidney transplantation. It operates in the same machine perfusion category GSP services clinically, making it a comparable broad incumbent in transplant preservation technology.
• XVIVO Perfusion: XVIVO Perfusion develops machine perfusion and preservation technologies for thoracic and abdominal organs, including liver and kidney. Its device portfolio overlaps with the perfusion platforms GSP staff are trained to operate.
• Bridge to Life: Bridge to Life supplies organ preservation solutions, devices, and clinical service support to transplant centers and OPOs. It overlaps with GSP in serving preservation workflows at transplant programs.
• TransMedics: TransMedics (NASDAQ: TMDX) develops the Organ Care System for warm, normothermic preservation and transport of donor organs. It is a broad incumbent in the transplant preservation space whose technology overlaps directly with the perfusion and preservation workflow GSP supports clinically.
• Organ Recovery Systems: Organ Recovery Systems makes the LifePort kidney perfusion platform and related preservation consumables. It is directly comparable because GSP's device-agnostic kidney HMP services explicitly cover this type of platform.

Others

• Surgical Directions: Surgical Directions is a healthcare consulting and staffing partner that helps hospitals build and run surgical and perioperative services. It is comparable as an ecosystem participant advising transplant programs on workflow and staffing design, areas GSP also addresses through its training service.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gold-standard-preservation-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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