Mark Evans

Executive Chairman

Mark is a co-founder of Dental Corporation. As Executive Chairman, Mark is focused on strategy development, acquisitions and financing while overseeing the day-to-day operations in consultation with Dr Ray Khouri and David Bonham.

Mark has over 20 years experience in corporate finance, investment banking and company management and has undertaken numerous Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) floats and capital and finance raisings across many industries.

Prior to Dental Corporation, Mark was a Director of a stock broking and corporate advisory business for 8 years, before becoming the Managing Director of Kids Campus in 2004 where he oversaw the growth of the ASX listed company from 6 to 120 childcare centres in 3 states. Kids Campus was taken over by ABC Learning in June 2006.

Following Kids Campus Mark set up Normanby Capital before establishing Dental Corporation in early 2007.

Dr Ray Khouri

Executive Director

Much of the original Dental Corporation vision was that of Dr Ray Khouri, a Sydney based dentist who has had a long standing dream to undertake a consolidation and corporatisation of the top end dental market.

Ray is co-founder and Executive Director. His role focuses on supporting the operations of the practices and the requirements of practice principals. The role also includes identifying and reviewing potential new practice acquisitions.

Ray has had a 17 year career in clinical dentistry. During this time he acquired, grew and sold a number of separate practices across Sydney. Each was sold with the gross revenues having increased under Ray’s ownership. More recently he has been Director of Dental Services for the dental arm of large corporate healthcare provider, a role which included establishing multiple dental practices from start-up.

Ray has a strong understanding of the dental market, how to grow dental practices and the incentives and drivers that work best for both dentists and auxiliary staff. He has significant experience in recruiting and managing associate dentists and auxiliary staff and establishing relationships with suppliers.

Chris Chambers

Executive Director

Chris is also a co-founder of Dental Corporation. In his role as Executive Director of Dental Corporation Chris focuses on the acquisition of individual dental practices. Chris is responsible for the analysis, due diligence and legal documentation process and overseeing settlement of practices.

Chris has had a 10 year career in corporate advisory and strategy consulting. During this time he has undertaken a wide range of mergers and acquisitions projects (including reverse takeovers, public company takeovers and business sales), equity and debt raisings (from seed, through private equity and bank debt to IPO’s and placements) and general advisory (such as acquisition strategy development, investor communications and business planning).

Chris is also a director of Normanby Capital.

Nick Thliveris

Non-Executive Director

For many years Nick has enthusiastically supported Ray’s vision and has been instrumental in the establishment of Dental Corporation. Nick has been involved in developing the business plan and in setting up the Corporate Centre and operational infrastructure required to run the business. Nick currently holds a non-executive director position of the company.

Nick has more than 20 years experience in the healthcare sector in Australia and Asia. He consults for a number of Australian companies on the commercialisation and sales of medical products and technologies.

Gordon Towell

Non-Executive Director

Gordon Towell brings with him a wealth of knowledge across a wide range of varied industries including technology, media and engineering sectors.

Gordon is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Audit Bureau of Circulations based in Sydney working on behalf of the media and publishing industry. Until very recently, he was CEO of the GEON Group, one of Australia's largest print and communications companies with over 1500 staff across 28 locations.

Prior to this, he has held several senior positions in "blue chip" companies, including CEO of IBS Automotive, (formerly IDS Enterprise Systems Pty Ltd); Managing Director of Granada Business Technology, a subsidiary of the Granada Group PLC; Managing Director of the Compel Group PLC; and a Divisional Manager of the General Electric Company.

Gordon has been involved with managing fast growth service companies and multi site business operations. He has experience in mergers and acquisitions, IPO and trade sales. His experience comes from working in Australia and the UK with business activities extending across Asia, Europe and North America.