Fifteen years at the commercial centre of UK dental.

Andy Sloan has spent more than 15 years at the commercial centre of UK dental consolidation. His career began outside dentistry, in hospitality, banking and accountancy, which still shapes how he reads a business.

He sat on the board of the Dental Buying Group (DBG), his first role in the sector.

He then joined Henry Schein as European Strategy Director, working across eleven markets to build its Business Solutions and Financial Services offering.

At Portman Dental Care he sat on the board with responsibility for M&A, leading more than 120 practice acquisitions and helping to establish Portman as one of the UK's leading dental groups.

Most recently, as Managing Director – Dental EMEA at Agilio Software for three and a half years, Andy led commercial strategy across Agilio's dental portfolio, spanning compliance, patient engagement, practice development and data solutions. He was on the deal team for Agilio's sale from August Equity to TA Associates and Five Arrows.

Since September 2026, Andy has been Divisional Strategic Chair, Dental at Agilio, alongside NED and strategic chair mandates with businesses operating at the frontier of UK and European dentistry.

Current engagements include Non-Executive Director at Casa Dental Group, a multi-site operator across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire; advisory roles with Ark Dentistry, Glo Aligners and MANI Medical Germany; and the advisory board of Marea Software, a Canadian AI-powered dental technology business.

He writes and speaks on dental market structure, DSO consolidation, regulatory change and the role of technology in practice operations. He writes The Accidental Dental Strategist, a monthly column on sloanstrategic.com, is Executive Editor (Dental) at Dentist Times, and is working on a book of the same name, due for publication in early 2027.