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DentalXChange names Scott Hampel President. Stock score locked: want to see it? Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock - anytime. Healthcare technology veteran to lead product, operations, and engineering as DentalXChange accelerates its product-led growth DentalXChange, a leading provider of revenue cycle management for the dental industry, is proud to announce Scott Hampel as President. This strategic addition to the Executive Leadership Team reflects DentalXChange's commitment to growth, innovation, and excellence in service to its clients, partners, and stakeholders. Scott Hampel, President of DentalXChange. Scott brings more than 25 years of healthcare technology leadership to DentalXChange, with deep experience in product management, tech-based services, commercialization, and operations. As President, he leads the company's product, operations, and engineering organizations and reports to Chief Executive Officer Paul Kaiser. Bringing product strategy, engineering, and client operations under one leader helps DentalXChange deliver new solutions faster across its platform, including Eligibility AI, Reconcile AI, PayConnect, PortalPass, and XConnect. "I have spent my career building and scaling healthcare technology businesses, and few opportunities match the one in front of DentalXChange," said Scott Hampel, President of DentalXChange. "The company sits at the center of the dental revenue cycle, trusted by nearly 200,000 providers and more than 1,400 payers, with a product portfolio that is already changing how practices get paid. I am thrilled to join Paul and the team and to help DentalXChange deliver more innovation, faster, with the quality our clients and partners expect." "We are beyond excited to have Scott join DentalXChange. Scott has walked in the shoes of every leader who will report to him. He has run product, operations, and engineering at scale, he knows revenue cycle management, and he has done it in the provider clearinghouse business," said Paul Kaiser, CEO of DentalXChange. "Bringing those three disciplines together under one leader gives us the horsepower to ship faster, run on metrics, and keep delivering for providers, payers, and partners. Scott will be a difference maker for our clients and our team." Kaiser continues to lead the company as CEO, with a sharpened focus on corporate strategy, growth, and partnerships. "When KKR invested in DentalXChange, we did so to accelerate product development and scalable growth across the dental ecosystem. Scott's appointment is a direct investment in that plan," said Hunter Craig, Managing Director at KKR. "He brings a proven record of leading product and operations in healthcare technology, and we look forward to supporting Paul, Scott, and the DentalXChange team in the next phase of growth." Most recently, Scott served as President of Mosai, formerly Medalogix, a clinical analytics software company serving the healthcare-at-home market, after joining the company as Chief Operating Officer in 2023. Before that, he spent six years at MedeAnalytics, a healthcare analytics platform serving providers and payers, as Chief Product and Strategy Officer and then President, where he was responsible for product, delivery, and operations. Earlier, Scott was Vice President of Solutions Management at TriZetto Provider Solutions, a leading healthcare provider revenue cycle management company serving more than 425,000 providers, following nine years at TriZetto in roles spanning pricing, product management, corporate operations, and chief of staff to the chief executive officer. Scott holds a BBA from the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business and an Executive MBA from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. About DentalXChange Since 1989, DentalXChange has been on the forefront of modernizing and innovating dental claims, creating dental RCM solutions that bring ease to the payments process. Today, it has grown to support a current client base approaching 200,000 dental providers and connectivity to over 1,400 payers. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, through its own clearinghouse, state of art technology consisting of modern APIs, and secure Web portals, DentalXChange processes over 1B EDI transactions, consisting of more than 300MM dental claims annually. For more information, visit www.dentalxchange.com. KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. 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Who owns Australia's underwriting agencies after a year of deals. AUB's purchase of Aon's One Underwriting is the latest in a run of deals putting more of Australia's specialist underwriting in fewer hands 23 Oct 2026 Aon's sale of One Underwriting Australia to AUB Group, which operates across Australia and New Zealand, is a modest deal on its own. One Underwriting has more than 30 years in the market and works with more than 250 brokers, writing lines from classic cars and pubs to commercial drones and fine art. Neither side disclosed a price and the sale still needs regulatory approval. Alongside this year's other deals, it points to a bigger shift. Underwriting agencies handle about a fifth of Australia's general insurance premium and their ownership is concentrating quickly. The buyers are increasingly groups that specialise in owning agencies. Sellers, buyers and a new map. Aon is the seller this time. It said the sale followed a regular review of its portfolio, and that One Underwriting would grow faster under an owner focused on agency businesses. The agency has belonged to Aon since it launched in January 2016, replacing the broker's earlier underwriting business, Freeman McMurrick. Steadfast's agencies are changing hands as well. Under the A$7.7 billion takeover of Steadfast by Amwins, Dragoneer and KKR, US wholesaler Amwins will take over Steadfast Underwriting Agencies once the scheme is implemented, which is targeted for December. That business wrote A$2.5 billion in premium in FY26 across 20 specialist agencies, according to Steadfast's results. AUB is the buyer. Its Australian agencies division writes about A$1.3 billion in premium across 39 specialist agencies, according to the group's website. One Underwriting will join it under Agencies CEO Denis Morrissey, the founder of 360 Underwriting Solutions, who told insuranceNEWS.com.au the business is "highly complementary" to AUB's existing commercial products. Together, Steadfast's agencies and AUB account for roughly a third of the premium written by Australia's 301 underwriting agencies. Those agencies wrote about A$10.8 billion in total, according to IB's Brokers on Underwriting Agencies report. The figures come from different sources and periods, so the share is approximate. Michael Brown, CEO of Encept in New Zealand, said the pattern was a familiar one from elsewhere in the distribution chain. "I think it's another sign of the value the market sees in specialist underwriting businesses," he said. "It's not that different from the consolidation we've seen among brokers: scale brings advantages, but the key is preserving the specialist focus and responsiveness that made these businesses successful." Why agencies are worth owning. For buyers, the attraction is margin. AUB's agencies division earned an EBIT margin of 43.7% in FY26, ahead of its Australian broking business, and the group has set a 47% target for the division. Underlying pre-tax profit rose 8.4% to A$78.0 million, held back by weakness in strata, according to AUB's FY26 results. Adding commercial specialty lines such as One Underwriting's is one way to lift that margin without relying on strata. The ownership list was already long. Jaydon Burke-Douglas, CEO of Antipodean Underwriting in Australia, pointed to Howden's ownership of DUAL, Steadfast's of ProRisk, the Envest Group's of London Australia Underwriting and AUB's 70% equity stake in Pacific Indemnity Underwriting Solutions. He said the Australian underwriting agencies market had grown more than 470% since the 2014-15 financial year, making it the fastest growing sector of the insurance market and that a race to own successful businesses was no shock. "I can understand why established underwriting agencies are attractive to larger groups," he said. "They bring specialist underwriting expertise, established broker relationships and access to niche markets that can be difficult to replicate." Insurers and wholesalers have their own reasons to buy rather than build. Jamie Richards, head of M&A at Ripe, told Insurance Business last week that in specialty lines it is easier to buy an agency with some scale and maturity than to grow one in-house. A new portfolio has no data to give it an underwriting edge, and a renewal book cannot be built overnight. Brokers, meanwhile, are relying on agencies more. In IB's latest Brokers on Underwriting Agencies survey, 59.7% of brokers said agencies underwrite more than 30% of their book, up from 46.8% a year earlier. Nearly all said they would keep placing business with agencies even in a softer market. The more of a broker's book an agency holds, the more its ownership matters to that broker. What brokers should watch. For the brokers who place with One Underwriting, the immediate questions are practical: whether its capacity arrangements, underwriting team and brand stay as they are. So far AUB and Aon have said only that they will work together on a smooth transition for customers, staff and other stakeholders. There is a competitive question too. AUB holds equity in 45 partner brokers. Brokers outside that network who placed with an Aon-owned agency will now be placing with one owned by a rival broking group. Steadfast's agencies are heading the other way, from a broker network to a wholesaler. Burke-Douglas said scale could deliver real benefits through investment in technology, operational efficiency and product development, but that the test was whether those benefits reached brokers and their clients. "Consolidation can create stronger businesses, lower overheads and economies of scale, but bigger doesn't automatically mean better," he said. "Ultimately, brokers want competitive products, fast decisions, consistency and people who understand their clients' businesses." Consolidation can also create choice. Richards said experienced underwriters often leave agencies once they are absorbed into larger groups and start new ones, many of which are bought in turn. He described consolidation and new MGA formation as two halves of the same cycle. Some owners are opting out of the roll-up model altogether. Brisbane's High Street Underwriting Agency now sits under a new parent, 11th Avenue, which takes minority or strategic stakes in agencies and leaves underwriting decisions with each brand. Founder Alan Whittle said the group had no wish to fold agencies into something "bigger, more corporate, or less approachable". "The more the market consolidates, the stronger the case for a place in the market for independent underwriting agencies that can combine specialist expertise with modern technology and a genuinely broker-focused approach," Burke-Douglas said. Antipodean is 100% Australian owned and independent, with a shareholder register made up of employees, managers and retail investors. Burke-Douglas said he wished those consolidating well, but wanted brokers to know independent alternatives were available. Questions to ask an agency after a change of owner * Will the same underwriters keep the same authority on referrals and claims? * Are the current capacity providers and binders staying, and for how long? * Will commission terms, wordings or appetite change at the next renewal? * Does the new owner also compete for the broker's clients, and how is client information kept separate? 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Siris Capital launches October Capital. Siris Capital has launched October Capital, a new private equity firm focused on technology-enabled services, with the completed acquisition of Takkion and pending acquisitions of EQ Retirement Solutions and Lenvi. October Capital will be led by Frank Baker, who co-founded Siris in 2011 and will serve as CEO and managing partner of the new firm. The launch follows Siris' deployment of more than $9.5 billion in equity capital over the past 15 years, including more than $3 billion in services businesses. October Capital will focus on companies that help enterprises implement, integrate and operate emerging technologies, targeting three investment themes: AI infrastructure, physical security modernization and financial infrastructure transformation. The firm launches with a 16-person investment team and three initial platform investments. Takkion provides services to the energy industry and is positioned to benefit from increased power demand associated with AI data center expansion. KKR Acquires HOERBIGER's Explosion Protection and Static Control Businesses The acquisition will expand KKR's industrial portfolio with businesses focused on preventing and mitigating workplace explosion risks. To read the entire story, you must be logged in. Amulet Capital-Backed TFP Fertility Group Purchases Manchester Fertility Group Manchester Fertility Group operates a fertility clinic and laboratory in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. To read the entire story, you must be logged in. New Harbor-Backed LGM Pharma Buys Sannova Analytical Sannova Analytical is a New Jersey-based contract research laboratory. To read the entire story, you must be logged in. Goldman Sachs Alternatives Acquires Majority Stake in Celnor Group from Inflexion Celnor Group is a testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) platform. To read the entire story, you must be logged in.