Philip Harrison joined Wellvana as its Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer in March 2022. Previously, Mr. Harrison was the Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at SmileDirectClub. At SDC, Mr. Harrison helped scale the direct-to-consumer orthodontics start-up from $20 million in revenue in 2016 to over $600 million in 2021 and a multi-billion dollar market cap on the NASDAQ. At SDC, Mr. Harrison founded and built the Data & Analytics teams as well as the Financial, Planning, and Analysis teams, and led capital markets efforts resulting in over $3 billion raised, including a $1.3 billion IPO on the NASDAQ in 2019. Prior to SDC, Mr. Harrison was a member of the Investment Team at Centerbridge Partners, a private equity fund with $30 billion under management.
Mr. Harrison started his career at Blackstone, where he did Restructuring & Reorganization investment banking. Mr. Harrison graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration with High Distinction from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Philip, originally from NYC, now resides in Nashville, TN with his fiancé and their mini dachshund.