Alex Zlatin

Alex Zlatin is the CEO of Mint Ops, a Winnipeg company that works with dental, hygiene and denture clinics across Canada. He joined in 2012, when it was still Maxim Software Systems, and has worked on the business side of dentistry ever since.

He writes business books because education is how he approaches everything. Most clinic owners were trained to treat patients, not to run a company, and the business side tends to show up as a crisis before it shows up as a lesson. His books are meant to get there first. When he finds he got something wrong, he says so and writes it again.

He's also been watching and reading science fiction for years, and playing a lot of it. Almost every time, he came away feeling the story could have been much better if it had been done differently. So he wrote one himself. He believes in "go big or go home", which is why the novel runs past 400 pages. It's set in a big, detailed world with a large cast of unusual characters, and the plot is built so that whenever you think you know what happens next, you're wrong.

Alex holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and a BSc in Technology Management from HIT in Israel. He founded the Dental Office Managers Association of Canada, serves on the AMBAC Advisory Board, chairs the dental assisting advisory committee at Red River College, and mentors with Futurepreneur Canada.