Meet the 2025 Speakers
Clinical Speakers
Arvind Philomin, DDS
Since becoming MGE clients, Dr. Philomin has taken his practice from $360K to nearly $10 Million per year, with a practice that places over 200 full arch cases per year! With Dr. Philomin’ s advanced training on implants and restorations, having placed over 10,000 implants in his career, his practice handles just about every type of case from simple, run of the mill to complex.
Rich Salvatore, DDS
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Dean C. Vafiadis, DDS, Prosthodontist
Dr. Dean Vafiadis received his dental degree and Prosthodontic specialty training at New York University College of Dentistry. He is currently the Director of the Full-Mouth Rehabilitation CE course at NYU. He is an Associate Professor of Prosthodontics at NYU College of Dentistry. Dr. Vafiadis published and lectured on various topics such as Aesthetics, Implant designs, Computer restorations, Ceramic materials and Occlusion. He is the founder of New York Smile Institute in New York.
Management Speakers
Luis Colon
Luis A. Colón is President and CEO of MGE Management Experts, a nationwide leader among executive training and seminar firms and is listed in the Who’s Who of American Business.
As a seminar speaker, Mr. Colón’s dynamic and information packed delivery is fascinating and entertaining, yet down to earth. It has an enormous impact on business owners, professionals and employees alike making him one of the most sought after speakers in his industry today. Over the course of his career as a public speaker and management trainer, Mr. Colón has helped several thousand business owners, CEO’s, executives and professionals to increase business efficiency, income and organization.
Jeffrey M. Blumberg
A dynamic and entertaining speaker, with over twenty years of experience as an executive in the business world and in the dental industry, Jeff has lectured to over 10,000 dental professionals and their teams. At the helm of MGE as the Chief Operating Officer for the last twenty years, Jeff has engineered incredible year-over-year expansion, resulting in over 500% growth overall. MGE clients also see the most rapid growth in the industry - with an average growth rate of 232% over five years - and Jeff's design and oversight of the MGE program is a major part of that.
Soren Michaelsen, DDS
In 2019, Dr. Soren Michelson was running a high-revenue single practice—but despite bringing in $4.1 million annually, profitability was razor-thin, stress was sky-high, and growth felt impossible.
Fast forward to today: his organization has expanded to five locations, generating $13 million in revenue—while actually increasing overall profitability. And most importantly? It was done without sacrificing control, efficiency, or sanity.
Dan Brown
Known for incredibly effective seminars and workshops in addition to consulting and coaching services, Dan has provided Needs Analysis reports, skills assessments, flow evaluations, marketing evaluations (both online and off-line), management coaching, business troubleshooting, staff seminars and custom training materials for managers as well as for employees. Dan has focused on helping businesses boost their income on an immediate basis, utilizing both outbound and inbound marketing strategies, off-line and online - inclusive of social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, video marketing and others.
Sabri Blumberg
An MGE client since 2016, Dr. Owens grew his practice from $1.1M to over $4M a year and now has expanded into 5 successful locations, with approximately 60 employees, and close to $8M in revenue. He knows how to help attendees get started, create the resources they need, and be successful no matter how large their group or practice becomes.
Steven Perry, DDS
Amy Eveland, DDS
Beth Garant
Adan Lozano
Mike & Amy Menkhaus
Since becoming clients back in 2002, they’ve gone from one practice producing around $1M a year to two practices collecting $10M all while working less and having tons of time for family, travel, and fun! They just acquired two more location and have set 2024 target of $14M. When they began with MGE in 2002, their children
Chris Menkhaus
MGE Power Program Graduate, Kelly Ruttan, has been integral in leading Matheson Dentistry from $1 million to over $4 million annually! While growing rapidly and expanding their team, she has mastered the art of teambuilding to add the right people and keep everyone laser-focused on maintaining extremely high quality of care and making patients healthy.
Vera Salvatore, DDS
Dr. Vera Popova Salvatore is a passionate dental provider with a focus on aesthetics. She received an International Leadership Award and has a minor in Aesthetic Dentistry. Dr. Vera’s cosmetic dentistry is award winning! She has won the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry Award as well as International College of Dentists Award.
Abby Perry
Mariah Mahurin
Jeremy Blumberg
Kathleen Ronesi