Board Investors | $100M+
Shape your legacy and scale your dental platform
Shape your legacy and scale your dental platform
We provide the expert guidance to optimize operations, drive growth, and position your organization for a successful future.
Why practice owners choose The DEO
50%
Higher profit margins
2x
Increased free time
5x
Return on your investment
Imagine...
Imagine...
A legacy that lives beyond you
A legacy that lives beyond you
Capital working as hard as you do
Capital working as hard as you do
A platform built to last
A platform built to last
Welcome to DEO
Strategic advisory for leaders who are building what comes next
The Board Investor program is DEO's most exclusive offering — a direct advisory relationship with Emmet Scott for dental platform leaders operating at $100M and above. This is not coaching. It is board level strategic counsel from someone who has built at this scale and navigated every conversation you are now having.
Navigate capital events with a trusted advisor
Navigate capital events with a trusted advisor
Position your platform for the next move
Position your platform for the next move
Lead at the board level with true peers
Lead at the board level with true peers
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Inside the advisory program
Inside the advisory program
Direct advisory with Emmet Scott
Direct advisory with Emmet Scott
The Board Investor program centers on a direct strategic advisory relationship with Emmet Scott — co-founder of a $150M DSO, former President of the ADSO, and the most experienced dental entrepreneurship advisor in the country. This is not a coaching program with a rotating roster of coaches. It is a personal advisory relationship with someone who has been exactly where you are and knows what the path forward looks like from firsthand experience.
Board level peer network
Board level peer network
Access to DEO's most exclusive peer community — a curated network of dental platform leaders operating at $100M and above. The conversations in this network are unlike anything available anywhere else in the dental industry. Every person in the room has built something significant and is thinking about the same questions of legacy, capital, and platform strategy that you are.
M&A strategy and advisory
M&A strategy and advisory
DEO works with Board Investor members on the full spectrum of M&A strategy — from target identification and evaluation to transaction structure and post merger integration. Emmet's direct experience navigating M&A at the platform level means this advisory is informed by firsthand operational knowledge, not theoretical frameworks.
PE readiness and transaction advisory
PE readiness and transaction advisory
For Board Investor members with PE conversations on the horizon, DEO provides comprehensive PE readiness advisory — strategic narrative development, financial positioning, leadership documentation, and the organizational preparation that maximizes enterprise value and minimizes due diligence risk. Emmet has navigated PE conversations from the inside and knows exactly what partners evaluate.
Platform strategy and positioning
Platform strategy and positioning
DEO works with Board Investor members on the long term strategic positioning of the platform — capital structure optimization, board governance, investor relations, and the organizational design that makes the platform attractive to the right partners and sustainable for the long term.
DEO live events
DEO live events
Exclusive access to DEO's three member only live events — Operations Intensive, Revenue Intensive, and TCA Live — with priority access to the executive track programming designed specifically for Board Investor and Executive Circle level leaders. These are the rooms where the most consequential conversations in dental entrepreneurship happen.
What to expect at each step
What to expect at each step
Your private introduction
Every Board Investor engagement begins with a private, confidential introduction with Emmet Scott. You'll engage in a peer level strategic conversation about where your organization is, where you want it to go, and whether DEO's Board Investor advisory is the right fit. There is no standard intake form and no sales process. This is a real conversation between two people who have built real organizations, designed to determine whether working together makes sense.
Strategic assessment
If the relationship moves forward Emmet and The DEO advisory team conduct a comprehensive strategic assessment of the organization — capital structure, leadership bench strength, platform positioning, M&A pipeline, and the specific strategic questions the Board Investor is working through. The output is a clear picture of where the organization stands against its strategic objectives and a prioritized advisory focus for the engagement.
Your board level advisory plan
Based on the strategic assessment Emmet builds a specific, prioritized advisory plan tied to the organization's most consequential near term decisions and long term strategic objectives. Whether the primary focus is PE preparation, M&A strategy, platform positioning, or capital structure optimization, the advisory plan gives the Board Investor a clear strategic roadmap with Emmet's direct counsel at every critical decision point.
Ongoing strategic advisory
From here the advisory relationship operates at the pace and intensity the organization requires, not on a fixed coaching schedule but in response to the real strategic moments that demand the highest quality counsel. Emmet is available for board meetings, investor conversations, M&A negotiations, and the strategic inflection points that define what the platform becomes. This is the advisory relationship that the most consequential dental platform leaders in the country have been looking for.
Frequently asked questions
DEO coaching at the High Producer, Entrepreneur Growth, and Executive Circle stages is a structured program with a defined cadence of 1:1 sessions, group calls, and framework application. The Board Investor program is a direct advisory relationship with Emmet Scott that operates at the pace and intensity the organization requires. There is no fixed coaching schedule, no standard framework application, and no group calls. This is a peer level strategic advisory relationship designed for leaders who have already mastered the fundamentals and are now navigating the most consequential decisions of their careers.
Emmet Scott co-founded Community Dental Partners from a single operatory and built it into a $150M organization with 1,300 employees across 70+ locations over 15 years. He served as President of the ADSO from 2020 to 2023, navigated PE conversations from the inside as an operator, and has spent the last decade advising the most successful dental entrepreneurs in the country through The DEO. When Emmet advises a Board Investor member he is not drawing on theoretical frameworks, he is drawing on the direct experience of having built, scaled, and navigated every conversation a Board Investor member is now having.
DEO's PE readiness advisory at the Board Investor level covers the full spectrum of preparation — strategic narrative development, financial positioning and EBITDA normalization, leadership documentation and bench strength assessment, organizational design review, and the investor relations preparation that maximizes enterprise value and minimizes due diligence risk. Emmet has navigated PE conversations from the inside as an operator and knows exactly what partners evaluate, what they are concerned about, and how to position a dental platform organization for the best possible outcome.
"When we started we had four locations. Now we have 12. I take a month off every year — this last year went to Portugal and Iceland. When I joined DEO in 2018 I was practicing five days a week, had a two hour commute, and two kids under five. It was pretty stressful."
"We did about $6.5 million together last year and we should hit close to $8 million this year. When you start to scale you do not know what you do not know — and DEO stepped in and gave me clear direction and prioritization to say this is what we should be working on now and this is what is coming next."
"We went from $3M to $5M in revenue, and when I look back at all the decisions we've made building our company, The DEO has easily been the most impactful."
"Before DEO we were at one location with 11 team members and heavily insurance dependent. We now have three locations, solid team members at all positions, and are moving more and more away from insurance dependence. We are stronger, leaner, and faster than we have ever been."
"When we started we had four locations. Now we have 12. I take a month off every year — this last year went to Portugal and Iceland. When I joined DEO in 2018 I was practicing five days a week, had a two hour commute, and two kids under five. It was pretty stressful."
"We did about $6.5 million together last year and we should hit close to $8 million this year. When you start to scale you do not know what you do not know — and DEO stepped in and gave me clear direction and prioritization to say this is what we should be working on now and this is what is coming next."
"We went from $3M to $5M in revenue, and when I look back at all the decisions we've made building our company, The DEO has easily been the most impactful."
"Before DEO we were at one location with 11 team members and heavily insurance dependent. We now have three locations, solid team members at all positions, and are moving more and more away from insurance dependence. We are stronger, leaner, and faster than we have ever been."