Roshan Parikh, DDS

Dr. Ro is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry. In addition to his DDS degree, he also obtained a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Loyola University with dual emphases in finance and marketing. He later capitalized on the opportunity to utilize all three when he purchased his first practice in the south suburbs of Chicago in 2008, where (despite a historically difficult period in the country’s economy) he led the practice on an exponential growth path from three employees operating in 650 square feet of space into a 35+ network of multi-specialty dental group practices with over 100 dentists and dental specialists. In 2019, Dr. Ro founded the dental consulting firm DSO Strategy, LLC, which was created to help entrepreneurial dentists strategize a growth plan for their dental group practices that would transform each not only into a thriving DSO, but also an investable platform for institutional capital. He also serves as a key advisor to multiple private-equity funds as well as banks. Dr. Ro is perhaps most known for his last role as Head of Dentistry for Walmart. Walmart Health is a set of revolutionary multi-modality healthcare centers that include primary medicine and dentistry. Dr. Ro’s strategy and multiunit healthcare services experience have been paramount to Walmart in helping align and re-align the strategy and expansion of Walmart Health, now in four states. After the successful completion of building a scalable model and plan for Walmart Health, Dr. Ro recently stepped away to join an early-stage New York City startup, dntl bar, serving as its President. An emerging tech-enabled DSO with four locations currently, Dr. Ro looks to further their success and improve upon an NPS score that is already at an 85, while continuing to emphasize high-quality convenient patient care. Dr. Ro resides with his family between New York City and Atlanta, although he still considers himself a Chicagoan, which will always remain his heart and hometown.