Steve Topper, MD

“These are difficult times for physicians in private practice, and perhaps especially so for surgeons. They find themselves sandwiched between powerful stakeholders like hospital systems, insurance companies and large medical practice groups. The pressure to survive is real and often drives physicians to abandon their autonomy and leave private practice to join one of these physician aggregators in an employment model. To avoid this trap, it is imperative to have a plan and allies, which is exactly what Aspire brings to the table; Simply put, Aspire offers the most physician friendly private equity model in the market, emphasizing protection of physician income, fully collaborative governance, absolutely no interference with clinical practice and decision making, and life changing financial rewards for its physician partners.”

“Aspire invests in top notch middle to microcap practices at very competitive valuation levels, providing an up-front financial reward for what physicians have already built. It then works as an ally and partner to provide capital infusion and best in class business expertise to build out a platform that grows in value toward an exit in three to five years that produces generational wealth for its physician partners. Aspire is a long-term investor looking for partners with alignment of interests and provides physicians the same class of equity as the investors; thus, all stakeholders have precisely aligned incentives and exactly the same goal line. In this tough, convoluted world of powerful stakeholders Aspire offers a transparent strategy that puts the cards in the hands of the physicians. Candidly, when I first learned of their model my reaction was, “Where were you guys when I needed you?”