James DeLuca

James DeLuca is a Clinical Data Architect and founder of Precision Dental Analytics, the profitability forensics firm that defends clinical EBITDA for practice owners, DSO platforms, and private equity investors preparing for institutional transactions.

A former Regional Director of Operations at two of the largest dental support organizations in the United States, James built PDA from the operator's side of the table, extracting ground-truth data from software (like Dentrix, Eagsoft, Open Dental, etc..) to expose the Phantom EBITDA that evaporates in Quality of Earnings audits. His forensic methodology has been validated by leading dental M&A advisors as going deeper than any framework in the market.

James is the author of four books on dental practice architecture: The Dental Data Playbook, Hidden Levers, Phantom EBITDA, and Spartan Leadership. His latest release, Phantom EBITDA, is the first forensic analysis of the normalization mechanics institutional buyers use to compress valuations at the closing table.