George Neal

George recently served as the CEO of Access Dental with locations in California, Texas & Alabama. AD was a wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. In this role he was responsible for leading and managing the day to day business operations and departments for Access Dental while leading key strategic initiatives to rapidly grow Guardian’s dental business in the US. George joined Guardian in March 2016 and led the rapid expansion of Access Dental as they acquired locations outside the California market.

George lead the successful exit of the business in late 2018 when the company was acquired by Western Dental, one of the largest DSO’s in the country.

George has over 30 years of experience in healthcare leading both medical device and provider service companies specifically in ophthalmology prior to joining AD. He was CEO of TLC Laser Vision Centers and successfully led the organization through a period of significant growth in the North American LASIK industry which had experienced double-digit declines. This lead to the successful sale of the company to private equity ownership which was the goal of the Board of Directors of TLC.