Cormack is trying to make integrated cloud software a long-term operating system for dental practices of different sizes.
Dave Cormack is chairman and CEO of Curve Dental. A healthcare software executive who previously led Brightree, he has focused on moving clinical and business operations into cloud software used by care providers.
Building Healthcare Software at Brightree
Before Curve Dental, he was president and CEO of Brightree, which provides business-management and clinical software for post-acute care. Curve’s official biography describes decades of experience founding and building software businesses, including a long period in healthcare applications and subscription software.
In Curve’s August 2026 announcement, Cormack recalled the leadership team’s experience growing Brightree and its later interest in dentistry. The opportunity he described was a market still relying heavily on older client-server applications.
Investing in Curve’s Cloud Platform
Cormack says the team acquired Curve because it offered a foundation for an integrated cloud platform. His emphasis is on making clinical and business functions work together for single practices as well as larger groups. “Our customers’ success is how we measure our own success,” he said in the August announcement.
The same release announced a further $200 million research-and-development commitment. That commitment reflects the direction of his strategy: extending the platform’s capabilities while encouraging practices to replace multiple applications with a common system.
The Cormack Family Foundation and Football
Outside his software work, he is a trustee of the Cormack Family Foundation and non-executive chairman of Aberdeen Football Club in Scotland. Curve’s biography presents those activities alongside his career in healthcare technology.