Jeff Miller serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Western Dental, where he oversees all legal matters, including corporate governance, acquisitions, regulatory compliance, litigation, and government affairs.

Jeff’s professional career has focused on supporting health care organizations to deliver the highest quality patient care, including hospitals, dialysis facilities and radiology practices. Prior to joining Western Dental, Jeff spent several years as Vice President-Deputy General Counsel and was named Acting General Counsel at DaVita, a leading provider of kidney care with over 2,000 dialysis centers across the United States. At DaVita, he oversaw legal affairs and managed the company’s 75+ member legal team. More recently, Jeff served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Imaging Advantage, a radiology practice management company. Before going “in-house,” Jeff was an Associate with Latham & Watkins, where he represented large health insurance companies, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. He also worked at RAND Health where he advised state governments in connection with health care financing initiatives aimed at increasing access to care.

Jeff earned a J.D. from Georgetown University, a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University.

Branden L. Nelson is a well-versed Human Resources executive with over 15 years of experience in HRIS technologies, business and organizational development, mergers and acquisitions, leadership development and diversity and inclusion initiatives in multi-cultural, multi-site locations in the United States, Latin America, Mexico and Europe.
Nelson was previously the Senior Global Human Resources Manager at Glidewell Dental, the world’s largest dental laboratory that provides high-quality dental lab products and services worldwide. Nelson worked at Glidewell for 10 years, in which he fast tracked his HR career to management as he excelled in positions such as Talent Acquisition Partner, Employee Relations Supervisor and HR Manager in just 5 years. Nelson spent his last 5 years at Glidewell in the Sr. Global HR role partnering with executive management as Glidewell fulfilled its mission of “bettering the world one smile at a time” for its employees and customers by doubling its’ employee headcount from 2500 to over 5000, adding more than 25 locations worldwide and opening two state of the art dental training, education and demonstration centers, the Glidewell International Technology Centers, that offers cutting-edge technology-focused education to healthcare professionals.
Nelson is currently the Vice President of Human Resources for Terra Tech Corp., a publicly traded vertically integrated hemp-based medical solutions company. Joining the organization in 2018, Nelson joined the team to develop and implement an HR infrastructure and company culture that would produce great talent, drive revenue and make Terra Tech an employer of choice in Orange County and beyond! To date, the company is thriving and looking forward to new business opportunities and growth; with HR at the nucleus of all said initiatives. During his time at Terra Tech, Nelson has not only blazed a trail with his efforts focused on the business (the heart) and maintaining synergy with its’ people (the pulse), but was also named one of three finalists for the 2019 NHRA (National Human Resources Association) HR Executive of the Year Award.
Due to his passions for people, community and achievement, Nelson also founded his own non-profit organization, I AM FRESH, Inc., which partners with high schools in underprivileged communities to provide youth mentorship and scholarships for higher education. Nelson is equally passionate about serving his church community. He mentors the youth at Antioch Church of Long Beach, oversees the media ministry and partners with the Senior Pastor as the church’s HR Advisor. Nelson believes that the field of Human Resources found him at an early age as he has always had a passion for people and their advancement journeys. Nelson’s life mission is “to endorse, enrich and guide individuals through the various stages of human development; in hopes to ultimately produce and/or awaken great minds, talents, abilities and an acceptance of self.”
Nelson holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from San Diego State University.