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Benco Dental Unveils Major Corporate Restructure to Drive Agility and Growth, and Meet Evolving Market Demands
| Monday, November 24th, 2025
1930 Ventures will become the Cohen family’s holding company, with three current leaders promotedto division presidents.
Benco Dental, the nation’s largest family-owned dental company, announced a significant corporate reorganization that will better enable the organization to meet the demands of today’s fast-changing market. The changes are designed to position the 95-year-old firm, owned by the Cohen family, to become even more nimble as it approaches its 100th birthday in 2030.
The Cohen family’s dental holdings—Benco Dental, PPO Profits and Clarion Financial—will be reorganized as divisions of 1930 Ventures, with each division executing its own unique go-to-market strategy under the leadership of individual division presidents. The firm’s current fiduciary Board of Directors will continue to oversee 1930 Ventures’ long-term financial health and strategy.
Each division will have its own dedicated team, with 1930 Ventures gaining overall efficiency through a shared services model covering finance, legal, IT, culture & people, and business development/marketing. This approach creates operational synergies, leverages customer insights and fosters a shared purpose—all with an emphasis on agility and lean operations.
L-R: Katy Cohen, Anna DuHamel and Ted Ringsdorf will lead the three divisions of 1930 Ventures.
As part of the reorganization, updates to the leadership team have been announced, including three roles focused on differentiating the end-to-end customer experience across key product and service offerings:
Current Chief Revenue Officer Katy Cohen will be promoted to President of Benco Dental, which will include all sales, marketing, field service and operational activities for the core consumables and equipment distribution business. Cohen, a seasoned national sales and marketing leader who joined Benco Dental in 2020, previously led Ambulatory Surgery and Community Health efforts at McKesson Corporation, one of the world’s largest medical supply distribution companies. Her extensive sales and coaching experience with other Fortune 500 companies includes roles at Owens & Minor and a medical device division of Johnson & Johnson. (She shares a surname with holding company owners, the Cohen family, but is not related.)
Current Chief Business Development Officer Anna DuHamel will be promoted to President of Clarion Solutions, which will house the organization’s value-added services including PPO Profits, a leading and fast-growing provider of dental fee negotiations and revenue cycle management services, and Clarion Financial, specializing exclusively in practice financing for dental professionals. She has over 20 years of experience in sales, operations, finance and engineering. DuHamel holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Current Vice President of Sales for the northeast, Ted Ringsdorf, will be promoted to President of Sapphire Brands, which manages and develops Benco Dental’s private label product portfolio. He brings more than 26 years of experience in dental products and distribution at well-known companies including 3M. Since joining Benco Dental in 2010, he has progressed through a series of ascending marketing and sales leadership roles. Ringsdorf earned a BS in Marketing from Penn State University.
“These changes reflect that Benco Dental is more than simply a dental distribution company,” said 1930 Ventures Managing Director Charles Cohen. “As we close in on $1 billion in revenue and our 100th anniversary as a family-owned enterprise, this reorganization will enable us to grow faster and be leaner in an ever-evolving and exciting market.”
Richard Cohen, Managing Director of 1930 Ventures, added, “For nearly a century, Benco Dental has grown our market share and geographic reach while earning unmatched customer loyalty. By reorganizing into a more focused structure with independently resourced divisions, we’re building on that legacy: delivering greater value and targeted solutions that help customers confidently address today’s challenges and seize new opportunities in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape.”
About Benco Dental At Benco Dental, we believe that dental providers deserve a partner on their side. We’re proud to be a national dental distributor with a century-long history, strong distribution network, and a comprehensive range of products, solutions, and services. We offer the unwavering support that can only come from a privately-owned company with the flexibility to do what is in customers’ best interests, so they can focus on growing their practices and delivering the best patient outcomes. Our collaborations with the industry’s leading vendors, buoyed by the market’s best-trained sales and field service team plus our proven track record of agility, helps launch countless new innovations each year. Together, we are driving dentistry forward. Visit www.benco.com.
About Clarion Solutions The Clarion Solutions family of companies is independently owned and united by a shared mission: to help healthcare professionals grow more efficient and successful while delivering exceptional patient care. Each of our businesses brings a distinct focus, but our teams are aligned in purpose and synergize relentlessly wherever the best interests of our valued customers intersect. Clarion Financial specializes exclusively in practice financing for dental professionals, taking the stress out of financing and narrowing the gap between prospective practice owners and their goals. PPO Profits is a leading and fast-growing provider of dental fee negotiations, medical billing and revenue cycle management services, empowering dental offices to boost profitability while contracted with PPOs—and expand access to care for uninsured patients through custom in-office membership plans. In addition, the Clarion Solutions team of approximately 200 associates provides Software & IT Support, Practice Lifecycle, Coaching & Education, and Practice Design services through Benco Dental to customers nationwide.
About Sapphire Brands Sapphire Brands manages and develops Benco Dental’s owned brands, offering more than 6,000 products from soft-tissue lasers to gloves. Every product is created by our in-house experts and backed by an exclusive Buy & Try guarantee. Designed to offer customers incredible value without sacrifice, brands like STERLING handpieces, Vision XR intraoral sensors, PRO-SYS power and manual toothbrushes and Iris hygiene products are part of a decades-long legacy of performance that has earned high ratings from both clinical testers and countless customers nationwide. Each year, Sapphire Brands invests in new launches and innovations to give customers exciting choices and more compelling reasons to partner with Benco Dental for all their consumables, equipment, and technology.
Larry Cohen graduated from Wilkes College with a B.S. in Accounting in 1957 and Columbia University Graduate School of Business, earning an M.S. in Management and Finance, 1958. He served in the U. S. Army Reserve from 1958 through 1964.
He is the second-generation owner of Benco Dental Company, which was founded by his father, Benjamin Cohen in 1930.
Joining Benco Dental in 1959 as manager of the Tooth Department, in 1960, Larry became an outside sales rep, a position he enjoyed full time until 1972. Beginning that year, Larry began reducing his outside sales role and increasing his managerial duties, later becoming the president of Benco Dental from 1965 - 1996.
Larry is the Founder of the American Dental Cooperative; Board, American Dental Trade Associate, plus Various ADTA committees. He sits on the Board of Wilkes University, Board of Visiting Nurses Association and the Board of Jewish Community Center.
