Sonrava Health Names Former Galderma U.S. Executive as CFO

Krishna Maridi has more than two decades of financial leadership experience, both in the United States and internationally. Sonrava Health is a national family of health and wellness companies, with differentiated dental office brands, dental and vision benefit plans, provider networks, and consumer products and services.

Krishna K. Maridi has joined Coppell-based Sonrava Health as chief financial officer, bringing more than 25 years of US and International financial leadership experience to his new role.

“We welcome Krishna to the Sonrava Health team,” Daniel D. Crowley, chairman and CEO of Sonrava Health, said in a statement. “His experience in healthcare finance and record of driving positive changes will be valuable as Sonrava Health continues to grow and fulfill our mission of expanding access to affordable, high quality dental care.”

Sonrava Health is a national family of health and wellness companies, with differentiated dental office brands, dental and vision benefit plans, provider networks, and consumer products and services. The company said it focuses on quality, value, and innovation.

Most recently, Maridi was CFO of Dallas-based Galderma U.S., a unit of the global dermatological treatments and skin care firm Galderma S.A.

Before that, Maridi was a vice president at PPD Inc., a global contract research organization for the pharmaceutical industry and now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

At PPD, he led Financial Planning & Analysis and Capital Markets where he supported an initial public offering and other capital raises, successfully navigated through the COVID pandemic, managed preparation of well-received quarterly earnings calls, and led the successful sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Before that, Maridi was with Pfizer Inc. for 22 years, rising through the ranks from a management trainee in Mumbai, India, to CFO of the Global Vaccines Business Unit in New York.

“Sonrava Health has been serving the oral health needs of millions of families for more than a century,” Maridi said in a statement. “I’m pleased to be part of an accomplished team with entrepreneurial spirit that is committed to quality and is highly innovative in the dental support organization (DSO) sector with its integrated multispecialty model.”

Sonrava Health, through its affiliates, is one of the nation’s largest dental support organizations and a leader in accessible, affordable high quality oral healthcare, supporting care for approximately 4 million patient visits annually in nearly 600 affiliated offices in 21 states coast to coast.

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