Made by orthodontists, for a superior patient experience.
When we looked at the landscape of available treatment options, we realized that patients were being asked to make too many compromises. So we set out to create a system that was not only more efficient, more convenient, and more aesthetically pleasing, it would also allow patients to see results as quickly as they appeared.
Using advanced technology and calling on the talents of a diverse team of orthodontists, bone biologists, computer scientists, engineers, and designers, InBrace is helping people everywhere reclaim their self-confidence every day.
Changing the face of orthodontics.
We aren’t here to repeat what’s already been said. We’re here to change the face of orthodontics – one mouth at a time. We’re revolutionizing orthodontic technology, transforming not only how teeth are adjusted, but the entire patient experience.
How it works. How it feels. How it looks. Starting from day one. Because everyone deserves to feel confident sharing their truest selves with the world.
We live by our values:
We go above and beyond.
Operate with integrity.
We get it done.
Leadership Team
Accomplished management team with with deep IPO, M&A, and category creation experience
Clint Carnell is a visionary leader, category creator and serial entrepreneur having led, founded and taken public multiple companies in consumer healthcare. Most recently, Clint led BeautyHealth and its flagship brand HydraFacial (Nasdaq: SKIN) from a 175m dollar acquisition in 2016 under private equity ownership to a public company with a 4.5 billion dollar market cap growing revenues 5x over 5 years. He is the co-founder and chairman of OrangeTwist a leading health + wellness lifestyle brand with 15 locations across the US providing medical aesthetic services. Previously, Clint was the COO for Solta Medical from 2005-2011 taking the company public in 2006 developing the global brands Thermage, Fraxel and Clear + Brilliant. During the early 2000’s, Clint founded and sold Charleston Renal Care to Davita and led Bausch & Lomb’s US Surgical business from 2000-2005 during the development of LASIK. He is a Duke University graduate where he was an all ACC soccer standout and a member of the US Olympic Soccer Qualifying Team.
John Pham DDS, MS is an entrepreneur, team builder, former aerospace engineer, and practicing orthodontist. As CMO and Co-Founder of InBrace, Dr. Pham is using his leaderships skills and treatment innovations developed from years of research to disrupt the orthodontic industry with an invisible, consumer-friendly solution for today’s active patient. He is responsible for infusing his passion for patient centered care into the company’s DNA and turning his belief in a diverse and empowered workforce into motivation for all to contribute and be successful.
Dr. John Pham is uniquely positioned to turn technology breakthroughs into success for InBrace. Dr. Pham has launched multiple start-up ventures and brings valuable, real-world experience in advanced orthodontic methods, practice development, healthcare software systems, lean manufacturing, systems management, and sales team leadership.
Dr. Pham concurrently acts as managing orthodontist for Bristol Dental and Orthodontics and Co-Principal Investigator at USC’s Advanced Orthodontics and Viterbi Engineering group. Prior to forming InBrace, Dr. Pham was co-founder of Simplifeye, a healthcare business management solution, where he focused on strategic partnerships and business development. As an aircraft engineer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Dr. Pham acted as Boeing’s corporate subject matter expert and primary liaison to the FAA on aircraft safety certification. Dr. Pham received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Doctorate degree in Dental Surgery from UCLA and his Master’s degree in Craniofacial Biology and Residency in Orthodontics from USC.
Jeff Nardoci is a passionate visionary who brings extensive experience in scaling companies for global expansions, talent empowerment, mergers & acquisitions, and commercial strategy in highly competitive markets.
Jeff brings more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles specializing in healthcare, medical device, and FMG with multinational corporations and industry leaders. Prior to joining InBrace, Jeff was Chief Operating Officer at HydraFacial, where he led the global commercialization efforts and expanded the multimillion-dollar aesthetic device company to a $1B exit (NASDAQ: SKIN). His remarkable influence includes roles at Syneron-Candela, Banner Health, Solta Medical, Bausch & Lomb, and Nabisco Brands.
Kevin J. Cousins, CPA (inactive) is a seasoned, executive leader with an extensive background in life sciences and deep operational and financial experience with publicly traded companies, venture-backed startups and certified public accounting. As CFO of InBrace, Mr. Cousins will guide the company’s rapid expansion, leveraging his life sciences industry experience to ensure compliance while maximizing corporate financial performance. He is responsible for business planning, investor relations and board of director relationships, while managing the continued buildout of finance, accounting and HR infrastructures.
Mr. Cousins brings an ideal combination of business acumen, unquestionable integrity, leadership and financial skills to InBrace. He is an expert in process analysis and implementation; financial planning, budgeting and analysis; systems implementation; risk assessment and mitigation; investor relations, fund raising and venture financing; initial public offerings; mergers and acquisitions; and tax law.
Before joining InBrace, Mr. Cousins spent more than 30 years in senior executive leadership positions primarily in the life sciences industry acting as CFO. During this period, Mr. Cousins played a key role in a variety of financial transactions, initial public offerings and mergers & acquisitions totaling in excess of $1 billion. These companies include Biopsys Medical (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), Senorx (acquired by CR Bard), Neomend (acquired by CR Bard), Sequent Medical (acquired by Microvention/Terumo and Focal Therapeutics (acquired by Hologic).
Mr. Cousins began his career in public accounting with KPMG (Peat Marwick). He received his Master’s in Taxation from Golden State University and his Bachelor’s in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from California State University, Fullerton.
Brent Hauser is a recognized leader who thrives in driving significant revenue growth and new business development by identifying and defining strategic vision, cultivating, and maintaining impactful relationships, and leveraging talent. Mr. Hauser joins the InBrace team with 20+ years of experience in developing market expansion strategies for category defining products in the medical device and aesthetics space. Before joining InBrace, Brent served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing Body Contouring at Zeltiq Aesthetics, leading their CoolSculpting ® brand where he continued their expansion journey through two acquisitions with multi-billion dollar companies: Allergan and Abbvie Company (NYSE: ABBV, $45.8 Billion in revenue). Prior to Zeltiq, Brent was at Solta Medical for 12 years and held various commercial roles, he is also a Stanford alumni.
As the Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Mr. Hauser is leading the growth of InBrace’s sales organization, expanding our global business, and driving adoption of the most disruptive technology to hit orthodontics in the last 20 years.
As the Director of InSights & InNovation, Mr. Oda is developing the next category creating product breakthrough in the orthodontic industry.
Mr. Oda brings his experience creating the most successful orthodontic product in line in the world, The Damon System, to InBrace.
After 12 years at Danaher/Ormco, Todd spent the next 5 years at 3M/Unitek where he brought to market numerous new orthodontic systems. Todd’s specialty is developing and scaling innovations that solve business problems by focusing on intuitive design.
In addition to orthodontics, Todd spent 10 years in the semiconductor industry developing complex underwater welding innovations.
Gabe Goldberg is the VP of Marketing at InBrace. As the VP of Marketing, Gabe brings a successful track-record of developing high impact marketing strategies for global conglomerates and hyper local brands that deliver strong ROI.
Prior to InBrace, Gabe was a Business Director at JWT where he drove marketing strategy for Johnson & Johnson and Unilever brands; including the successful return-to-market strategy for Tylenol, Zyrtec, Benadryl and Sudafed.
Previously he developed integrated media strategies at Conde Nast & Time Inc., and was at Starbucks driving content initiatives. Goldberg also ran the successful consultancy, Hone Marketing, as a fractional CMO for health, cosmetic, and fitness brands.
Gabe was a research contributor to two marketing books; A New Brand World and Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation, and is a speaker on how to build the right teams for tangible marketing performance improvement.
Jessica Solomon is a people-focused leader joining us as VP of Human Resources who brings extensive experience scaling fast growing companies.
Jessica has over 15 years of experience in HR roles specializing in fast growing companies in FinTech, Med Device and Mortgage. Previously, as the Director of HR at HydraFacial (NASDAQ: SKIN), the relationships she created helped the company grow to a successful IPO. Her remarkable influence includes roles at GoodLeap, loanDepot (NYSE: LDI), and Home Depot.
Independent Board Directors
As the former president of both American Orthodontics Corporation and 3M Unitek (orthodontic division of 3M, NYSE:MMM, $117.74B Market Cap), Rich Iverson is an ideal consultant, strategic business advisor, and mentor to the InBrace executive team. Mr. Iverson is leveraging his extensive leadership skills and experience to support the executive team in building a strong scalable foundation for operational and customer support excellence.
Advisors
Dr. Hongsheng Tong DDS, PhD is a highly respected orthodontic scientist, researcher and inventor; clinical assistant professor at the USC Ostrow School of Dentistry; owner of two orthodontic practices in Southern California; Diplomat of the American Board of Orthodontists; and inventor of InBrace. He has treated nearly 10,000 patients and performed extensive research on the biomechanics of tooth movement, giving Dr. Tong rare insights into the value technology can bring to personalized patient care. As Co-Founder & Principal Orthodontic Scientist at InBrace, Dr. Tong is responsible for technology innovation and advanced clinical development.
Early in his career, Dr. Tong became fascinated by the intricate biomechanics in various orthodontic treatments that drive tooth movement. He pursued his fascination of healthier, more effective orthodontics as a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Southern California, where his PhD in Craniofacial Biology brought a unique perspective to orthodontic biomechanics. Dr. Tong’s research has been published in a wide variety of cover stories and prominent articles in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics and the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics. He remains a frequent lecturer at numerous advanced orthodontic programs and conferences in the United States and Asia.
Dr. Ron Redmond is globally recognized expert in orthodontic practice performance and has been at the nexus of each wave of technology that has hit orthodontics over the last 40 years. As a Board Member of Swift Health Systems, Dr. Redmond helps the executive team navigate the barriers to new technology adoption with a data centric approach toward improving practice performance. Within the close knit orthodontic community, Dr. Redmond’s name is synonymous with innovation.
Dr. Redmond has served in many leadership capacities, most notably as CEO of the Schulman Study Group, an internationally recognized organization of practice performance experts, from 2003 to 2017. The Schulman Study Group’s invitation only membership are exclusively in the top 1% highest grossing private practices across the country. He speaks regularly at the annual meetings of national and regional orthodontic associations.
Dr. Redmond also served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, and previously owned practices in multiple locations in Orange County, California and Seattle, Washington. Dr. Redmond is an Associate Professor of Orthodontics at the Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco and sat on the Board of Regents of the University of the Pacific for 11 years.
Dan Ellis has been an advisory board member since 2020. He began his career as a salesperson at Physio Control, a part of Eli Lilly’s medical device and diagnostics division. Subsequently, he rose to positions of increased leadership and responsibility in the division and at Guidant, once the division was spun out.
He found his calling in early stage organizations and had stops at Fusion Medical, Cardiac Pathways and Barrett Medical along the way. Dan retired from Align Technology where he served as Vice President, North American Sales for 8 years. Now retired, Dan spends his time helping early stage companies grow and mentoring students. Dan is a business graduate of Oregon State University and served as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps.
Eddie Yoon is the founder of EddieWouldGrow, LLC, a think tank and growth strategy firm working exclusively with Category Creators. His work has helped clients generate $10B+ in annual revenue and much more in incremental market capitalization. He focuses on VC and PE backed companies seeking to maximize their valuation, and includes two recent $1B+ unicorns. Prior to this, Eddie was a senior partner at The Cambridge Group, a growth strategy firm that was acquired by Nielsen.
He is also the co-founder of Category Pirates, a substack newsletter that is the definitive authority on Category Design/Creation. His co-founders are Christopher Lochhead, 3x Silicon Valley CMO, author of Play Bigger and host of the Top 100 iTunes podcast Follow Your Different, and Nicolas Cole, founder of Digital Press, and viral writer with more than 100 million views who has written on behalf of 300 different founders, executives and venture capitalists.
He is the author of the book Superconsumers, published by the Harvard Business Press, and more than 70+ articles on growth and category creation on HBR. He has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek and has appeared numerous times on CNBC and MSNBC. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
Dr. John J. Tracy served as Boeing’s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Operations, and Technology from 2006 through his retirement in 2016. In this role, he reported to the Boeing Chairman and CEO and served on the company’s Executive Council. Upon retirement from Boeing after 35 years, Dr. Tracy was leading more than 100,000 employees across several functional and business organizations and had responsibility for Engineering, Operations, Global Supply Chain, and Intellectual Property Management.
Dr. Tracy currently sits on the board of directors for 3D Systems, a world leader in 3D digital manufacturing technology. As Senior Executive Advisor, Dr. Tracy’s impressive depth and breadth of experience is incredibly valuable for guiding Swift Health Systems through the large and complex challenges of scaling an operational infrastructure for global distribution.
Dr. Tracy received a PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and a master’s degree in Physics from California State University, Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from California State University, Dominguez Hills.