Business View Magazine Jan-2019

112 to be leaders,mentors, and entrepreneurs.What supersedes the competitive nature of the business is the patient care we provide, and I fully believe that if we can have doctor-led organizations,where they’re making decisions for patient care, I will encourage that, even at the cost of the company’s interest. I believe that this is the right way to pro- vide care for patients.” In addition to being a successful care model,MB2 Dental has also proved to be an economically suc- cessful one. So successful that, in 2017, the company was recapitalized by Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising compa- nies at the lower end of the middle market, and has a well established record of investing in the dental sector.“This first year,we close to tripled our budget goals and most likely, by next year, a year-and-a-half into our partnership with Sentinel Capital, hopefully, we may be very close to where we projected we’d be in four or five years,”Villanueva enthuses.“So, our growth is astronomical and more than I would have anticipated.The more dentists we reach and the more dentists understand our model, the more they realize there’s really no compromise to it.They get to maintain their independence and have greater value in their equity.We’re surpassing every budget that we put forth, and we beat every traditional budget model out there for a private equity-owned organization.” Villanueva admits that not all dentists will ul- MB2 Owners’Trip -Utah 2018