Lea Nesbit is the founder of Celadon Dental, Inc., a dental distribution company focused on marketing European dental products in the U.S.

Lea Nesbit co-founded Lingualcare, Inc., a Dallas, Texas based dental technology company that developed and marketed disruptive technology for the mass customization of invisible, orthodontic braces with operations in the U.S., Germany and Mexico. Lingualcare won the prestigious Dallas 100 Entrepreneur Award in 2007 for being one of the fastest growing, most dynamic companies in Dallas. Lingualcare was purchased by 3M Company in November, 2007. Lea served as Lingualcare’s CEO from the company's inception in January, 2003 until the sale and as president until April, 2010 managing the integration with 3M Unitek.

During her tenure as Lingualcare's CEO Lea also served on the board of directors of Lancer Orthodontics (LANZ) a manufacturer of traditional orthodontic appliances.

Lea founded Lingualcare after three years with OraMetrix, a healthcare technology company that developed platform technologies for dental imaging, orthodontic treatment planning and mass customization of orthodontic archwires. At OraMetrix Lea served as vice president of marketing and sales. As a member of the OraMetrix executive management team, Lea managed marketing, business development, sales, customer service, installation and training. In addition she was successful in helping the company to raise over $20M in equity financing.

Prior to OraMetrix, Lea served as vice president of marketing at AutoTester, a QA software and professional services company. Ms. Nesbit was director of marketing at XTRA On-Line Corporation, a start-up, Internet travel software-development company backed by Austin Ventures. Lea held management positions in international sales and product marketing at Micrografx, a developer of Windows graphics applications, where she was the managing director for Latin America, Africa, India and the Middle East. Lea started her career at GeoWorks in Berkeley, California working as a product manager.

Lea has a B.A. in Political Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Texas El Paso and an M.B.A. from Thunderbird, School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ.

Lea is currently a member of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas, on the board of TeXchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to making technology entrepreneurs successful and the board of managers at SureBooks L.L.C. Lea serves as an advisor and mentor to several technology and healthcare start-up companies in the U.S. and Germany. She frequently speaks at technology and healthcare forums and is a guest lecturer at SMU's Cox School of Business, University of Texas Dallas and Dallas public schools.