Richard has a huge wealth of experience and expertise in running and developing companies and groups within the dental and pharmacy sectors.

He began his career at Unilever before spending 30 years working in a series of roles across customer service, multi-site operational management, marketing, finance and operations including at Somerfields Stores plc.

Richard later became Managing Director of Lloyds Pharmacy in 2005 and then CEO of {my} Dentist in 2010. Richard is also the Chairman of Europe’s largest diagnostic and cancer care company, Affidea, and is heavily involved in healthcare across Europe.

Dawn has over 30 years of experience both from a clinical and management/strategy prospective. She began her career as a dental nurse progressing to Operations Director/Integration Director within a large dental group. Dawn was instrumental in the growth from a small group of practices to the corporate it is today.

She brings with her the insight and experience it takes to build a dental group today, combining inspirational leadership with strategic commercial awareness. Her strengths include transforming struggling businesses, identifying commercial opportunities and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Gareth is a highly experienced commercial finance professional having held a number of senior roles in Industry and led national and multinational business transformation programmes in a wide range of industries whilst in management consulting.

Gareth has nearly 30 years post qualification experience in a wide range of industries. He joined Rodericks in November 2018 having been Director of Finance for another major corporate for the previous 7+ years. He therefore brings extensive experience of the sector and indeed background in growing a corporate dental chain including all the business challenges this brings.

In his career Gareth has held four different CFO / FD roles previously and in addition to leading finance departments Gareth has been responsible for many other functions . Gareth is very familiar with working cross-functionally in developing businesses for long-term success and has extensive experience of large-scale systems / process improvements to drive business growth whilst maintaining control in multi-site organisations. His line management experience is supplemented by over 10 years in national and international management consultancy assignments working for PwC and Deloitte.

Gareth qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds an MBA from Aston University.

Alpesh qualified in 1999 from Kings College, London and then began his vocational training in 1999, with the Weston Favell Group of practices under the supervision of the prestigious Oxford Deanery for which Shalin was VT advisor. Alpesh remained with the group, continuing to work as an associate dentist. In 2002 Alpesh accepted the invitation to become a partner and be a part of the growing group of practices.

In common with all Rodericks directors of clinical background, Alpesh is closely involved with continuing education and in 2008 became a foundation dentist trainer and obtained his Certificate in Medical Education from Sheffield Hallam University. The support of junior dentists is fundamental to the continuing provision of excellent services within the UK and Alpesh has twice been a speaker at the Young Dentist Conference, as well as having many articles for the dental press.

Alpesh’s key operational responsibility within Rodericks is the recruitment of new dentists, hygienists and therapists, taking the recruitment journey through its entirety. Following this, he remains on-hand to provide appropriate support, advice and guidance.

Through his continuing role as a practising dentist and with the knowledge of the NHS dental community this brings, Alpesh is well placed to identify areas of need across the country. He works closely with the Rodericks team to ensure continual development of our objective to always deliver excellent dental services.

Carlos qualified from Birmingham University in 1991. Having owned practices in London and Windsor Carlos joined Rodericks in 2005 as a joint venture partner and subsequently merged his practices entirely with the group in 2008.

Carlos has had various roles within the group over the years. Having started as business development Director responsible for the opening of over 40 of our sites, he has also been in charge of facilities, operations and more recently was the group clinical director.

Carlos has been involved in post graduate dental training since 1999, as an FD trainer and he also held the Training Programme Director role for the Berkshire scheme.

In May 2018 Carlos took over the role of Director of Professional Development for Rodericks looking after all the companies CPD and FD training programmes as well as combining this with working 2 days a week in clinic.