Gregg Kaplan Email & Phone Number

Gregg Kaplan was the Founder and Former CEO of Redbox DVD Rental, bringing it from scratch in 2002 to over $2 billion in revenue in 11 years.Gregg joined Dentologie as CEO in June 2022. Dentologie is a Chicago-based dentistry practice started by three visionary dentists who are recreating the dentistry experience with technology, amazing customer service, branding, great urban locations and a hip & inviting office atmosphere.From January 2020 to June 2021, Mr. Kaplan served as the CEO of Valicor Environmental Services, a Pritzker Private Capital company. Previously, from 2015 to 2020, he was the Operating Partner at the Pritzker Private Capital overseeing the Services Sector.Prior to the Pritzker Private Capital, Mr. Kaplan was the President and COO of Coinstar Inc. In this role, Mr. Kaplan oversaw two large businesses: Redbox and Coin. In total, these businesses comprised over $2.2 billion in revenue. Mr. Kaplan joined Coinstar in April 2009, following the acquisition of Redbox by Coinstar. During Gregg's four years (2009 - 2012) as President and COO, revenue increased from $1.0B in 2009 to over $2.2B in 2012; EBITDA increased from $204M to $461M and EPS increased from $1.20 to $4.67Prior to Coinstar, Mr. Kaplan founded Redbox DVD Rental. Redbox rents new release DVDs to consumers from automated kiosks for the low price of $1 per day. Mr. Kaplan was CEO of Redbox for nearly 7 years, bringing Redbox from incubation with just a few DVD kiosks in one market to over 20,000 kiosks across 48 states and from $0 in revenue to over $700 million. Over the same time, Mr. Kaplan oversaw the Redbox team’s growth from 5 people to over 1,200 employees, with Mr. Kaplan building the entire management team.Prior to Redbox, Mr. Kaplan worked: in Strategy at McDonald’s Corporation; as a Partner and early employee in the venture capital area of divine interVentures; as an early employee at another startup, Streamline.com; and was an investment banker at Furman Selz, an investment bank in NY.Mr. Kaplan is active in Young Presidents Organization and in 2009, he was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” and a finalist for Illinois Technology Association’s “CEO of the Year” award. Mr. Kaplan was also named by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the “40 under 40”Mr. Kaplan earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.