Founder, Owner, CEO, Glidewell Laboratories
WHY: Runs largest privately owned dental implant provider: $500M in annual sales, 4K workers. Products include crowns, dentures, composites, ceramics. Directs R&D.
RECENT: Bought JWA-area offices in 2018 for $88M; company campus totals nearly 500K SF.
NOTABLE: Paid $10.6M for Village Crean, home of late John and Donna Crean, Newport Beach 2013. Began Glidewell 1970; first year sales: $39K.