Two years ago, Troy Kirchenbauer got an opportunity most employees would shy away from – the chance to put his company out of business.
The former Novation executive and current general manager of Aptitude LLC, a new web portal spunout of the Irving, TX.-based group purchasing organization, was tasked with leading a team with the mission of tearing apart not only Novation’s business model, but the method by which hospitals buy billions of dollars of medical equipment every year.