Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 13, 2002

Cory Armand – Orthodontic Centers Of America (oca)

CORY ARMAND joined Orthodontic Centers of America as VP of Investor Relations in January 2002. Before joining OCA, Mr. Armand spent four years with GulfStar Group, an investment banking firm with offices in Dallas and Houston, Texas, where Mr. Armand was most recently Senior Vice President. Prior to that, Mr. Armand served as Vice President of First Commerce Corporation of New Orleans, LA (now Bank One), and he also worked for over a year as Manager of Financial Reporting for CII Carbon, LLC, a Louisiana-based chemical manufacturer and exporter of petroleum coke throughout the world. Mr. Armand earned a BA and MBA, each with honors, from Tulane University. Profile
TWST: Could you give us an overview of Orthodontic Centers of America

today?

Mr. Armand: Orthodontic Centers of America was founded in 1985. It went

public in 1994 and was listed on the New