The industry’s largest GPO gives the nod to Byron Jobe to succeed Curt Nonomoque effective March 31, 2018.
It’s been a fascinating journey Nonomoque has taken this organization through from VHA to what Vizient is today. Think of all that has happened in the last 10 years or so of combining the three GPOs with the contracting arm Novation then acquiring Medassets and melding it into Vizient. Talk about a cultural challenge getting that group centered and working in the same direction.
I don’t know Byron Jobe but I look forward to seeing how he puts his mark on Vizient. I think there is a lot of passionate leaders at Vizient including Pete Allen, Rand Ballard and two of my favorites in the industry Cathy Denning and David Gillan. My guess is we won’t see huge changes, but we will have to see.
On another note while talking about Vizient I really admire their commitment to supplier diversity under the guidance of Mark Cartwright. Supplier diversity is so much more than just the right thing to do, simply put it is good business. If you ever get a chance to spend time with Mark it will be time well spent!
