Jeff Ballard, President & CEO of Delta Dental of Tennessee

This week on CEOs You Should Know, we host Jeff Ballard, President & CEO of Delta Dental of Tennessee.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jeff Ballard, President and CEO of Delta Dental of Tennessee,
tell us a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm a native Middle Tennessean, so I've lived here all
my life. I am married to a Middle Tennessean, and
I've raised my family in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Describe what your business is about.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Delta Dental is a dental insurance company and we've recently
got into selling vision benefits. So we started that three
years ago and it's been highly successful. So in the
future we'll be looking at what other ancillary benefits that
employers want to provide to their employees.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
What is the mission of your business.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
To ensure healthy smiles of all Tennesseans. We cover one
point five million Tennesseans as far as dental insurance, but
there are a lot of Tennesseans that do not have insurance,
so there are a lot of underserved and so we
are five oh one c four, which means we reinvest
a lot of our profits back into the community, and
so we take care of a lot of those underserved

(00:57):
Tennesseans in the form of supporting charitable clinics in the
state of Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
What else would you like listeners to know?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Preventive oral healthcare is very important, so you need to
go see your dentist. And it's very simple. You can
remember this one thing two two two, brush your teeth
twice a day for two minutes a time, and go
see your dentist twice a year.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Jeff Ballard, President and CEO of Delta Dental of Tennessee.
Where can people find out more?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Visit our website at Delta dentaltan dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
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