With a decade of experience in dental private equity and specialty group leadership, Chicago entrepreneur Rashed Din’s biggest lesson is simple: culture is the real engine. It's daily behaviors anchored in clinical quality, clear values, and leaders who actually live them. Growth only works when new partners share those fundamentals.
He keeps finance and operations just as grounded. Deals should be easy to understand, cash-on-cash reality matters more than hypothetical equity, and clinical autonomy works best when paired with a few shared expectations around diagnosis, access, and treatment planning. And in today’s market, profitability depends on transparency and giving teams targets they can genuinely influence.
Listen for a clearer sense of how to build groups that actually work—how to protect culture, simplify money conversations, lead clinicians well, and grow without losing your footing. This is your roadmap built from real wins, real mistakes, and a decade of lessons you can put to work immediately.
GUESTRashed DinCo-Founder of Maya Dental
Rashed Din is a strategy consultant–turned investor with roots in investment banking and private equity, who always approached deals like an entrepreneur at heart. Over the last 12 years, he entered dentistry as a private equity investor and ultimately fell in love with the space, dedicating the past 8+ years primarily to building in dental. In the last five years, he’s been deeply embedded in the specialist market—particularly Perio and Oral Surgery—where he partners closely with clinicians and teams. That exposure shaped his strong appreciation for the culture of “authentic specialists,” prioritizing clinical quality, integrity, and collaborative growth.
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