SLOAN STRATEGIC ADVISORY
Not a consultant. A strategist who's done the deals.
Independent advisory and non-executive work for dental and healthcare businesses that are building something worth building.
Book a 20-minute conversationFifteen years at the commercial heart of UK dentistry. 120+ acquisitions. Two PE transactions. A career built across hospitality, banking and accountancy before anyone called it a cross-sector perspective. Andy Sloan works with boards, founders and investors who want an independent voice, not a safe one.
15+
years
120+
acquisitions
2
PE transactions
5,000+
practices served at Agilio
Environments Andy has worked inside
Portman Dental Care
120+ acquisitions, buy-side deal lead
Agilio Software
Dental division scaled past 5,000 practices across EMEA
Henry Schein UK
Led the UK practice brokerage business; financial services remit across 11 European countries
Current roles
Agilio Software
Divisional Strategic Chair, Dental
Casa Dental Group
Non-Executive Director
Marea Software (Valsoft)
Advisory Board
MANI Medical Germany
Adviser
Ark Dentistry
Adviser
Glo Aligners
Adviser
Dentist Times
Executive Editor (Dental)
DentalForum EMEA 2026
Chair
Three sides of the same table.
For practice principals and founders
Know what a buyer will see before they see it.
Goodwill, normalised earnings, associate retention and the NHS and private mix. Andy helps owners prepare a practice for diligence, so the price is set on evidence and not on the buyer's assumptions.
How buyers value a practice →For PE sponsors, platforms and boards
Diligence the space between the practices.
Software contracts, practice management systems, data control and integration governance. Independent board and non-executive work for groups and investors who want a view with no stake in completion.
Board and transaction advisory →For healthcare technology businesses
Get UK dental right before you scale.
Group buyers ask about GDPR, NHS data security, DCB0129 clinical safety and CQC readiness before they ask about features. Andy helps technology businesses entering UK dental build a commercial and compliance story that procurement teams accept.
Market entry and compliance advisory →The question isn’t what the technology can do. It’s whether your business is built well enough to benefit from it.
Where the work happens.
Scaling dental groups
Moving from five sites to fifty is not linear. Andy has been inside that complexity operationally, commercially, and at board level, across more than 120 acquisitions.
M&A and integration
120+ practice acquisitions at Portman Dental Care, plus leading the deals and integration for seven businesses acquired by Agilio's dental division. The work that happens after the deal closes is where most value is made or lost.
Board and NED roles
Non-executive and advisory roles for PE-backed dental groups and founder-led businesses. Board-level work alongside PE sponsors on governance, performance and value creation.
An independent voice at board level.
Most advisory work in dental follows the deal. This practice doesn't. Sloan Strategic works with boards navigating growth, investors stress-testing strategy and founders who have outgrown the advice available to them. Each mandate gets board-level attention. The work is deliberate, the relationships long, and the thinking is not for sale to the highest bidder.
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For founders, chairs and investors who want an independent view before a decision is made. No pitch, no obligation.
Arrange a conversationOr email andy@sloanstrategic.com
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