Board-level strategy and governance for dental businesses, investors and the technology businesses that serve them.

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Non-Executive Director and Board Adviser

For dental groups, DSOs and healthcare technology businesses that need independent board-level input on strategy, governance and M&A.

Andy works with businesses at inflection points. Preparing for investment. Navigating a transaction. Building the governance infrastructure required for the next stage of growth. Managing the complexity that arrives with rapid consolidation.

What Andy brings to a board:

• –A track record across 120+ acquisitions and two institutional PE transactions
• –Deep understanding of UK dental governance, CQC, and the compliance layer that trips up fast-growing groups
• –Independence from the executive team, and the willingness to ask the questions that stop being asked in rooms full of operational expertise
• –A network across PE, M&A advisory, dental media and the DSO leadership community

Typical engagements run on a retained basis. Andy holds a small number of seats and is selective.

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Strategic Advisory: Market Entry, Growth and Transactions

For investors and technology businesses that need a knowledgeable, independent guide to the UK dental market.

UK dental is not one market. It is three: NHS, private, and corporate consolidation. Each has different economics, different governance requirements, different buyer behaviour. Most technology businesses and international investors misread it on entry. That misreading is expensive.

Andy provides:

• –UK market entry strategy for dental and healthcare technology businesses
• –Sector intelligence and deal origination for PE firms and investors active in dental
• –Pre-transaction governance and capital readiness assessments for groups preparing for investment or sale
• –Advisory board roles for technology businesses entering the UK dental market

Engagements are structured as fixed-fee projects or retained advisory, depending on scope.

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UK Compliance Audit: Healthcare Technology

A fixed-scope diagnostic for healthcare technology businesses entering UK dental who need a clear, credible compliance narrative before approaching group-level buyers.

The UK operates a significantly more complex regulatory environment than North America or mainland Europe for dental technology. GDPR, CQC readiness, NHS data security standards, Software as a Medical Device classification, and clinical safety standards under DCB0129 and DCB0160: group procurement teams will ask about all of them. Single-site early adopters will not.

Getting this wrong at the wrong moment costs deals.

A compliance audit from Sloan Strategic Advisory gives you:

• –A gap analysis across all relevant UK regulatory frameworks
• –A credible compliance narrative for use in sales, procurement and investor conversations
• –A prioritised remediation roadmap with clear ownership and timelines
• –Positioning guidance for CQC-regulated buyers

Fixed fee engagement. Delivered within 6–8 weeks.