Josh Guttman

Founder

Small Door Veterinary

Shea Cox

Group Medical Director, Pet Hospice

BluePearl Pet Hospice

Daniel Cheng

Director IoT Products

Nestle Purina

Daniel has over a decade of experience in the tech industry and is passionate about changing the way we live through technology and innovation. Daniel is currently the Director of Product at Nestle Purina, leading the new Petivity division. Petivity is laser focused on building connected experiences that improves the pets’ lives through smarter care. Previously, Daniel led product management and marketing teams at a wide array of disruptive companies such as View, Sengled and Semtech. Daniel graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and received his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Alexander Rinkus

Director of Communications and Stakeholder Relations

Health for Animals

Roy Chin

Principal

North Castle Partners

Christie Horvath

CEO

Wagmo

Christie Horvath is CEO and Founder of Wagmo, a modern pet healthcare company redefining pet benefits in the workplace. Christie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University. She began her career in the Financial Institutions Group at BlackRock before launching Wagmo in 2017.

Recently, Christie was named to the Inc. Female Founders 500 list, and in 2024, Wagmo was recognized with the Benefits Trailblazer Award for Best Lifestyle Solution.

Micah Adler

Founder

Goodpup

Michael Sullivan

SVP and Head of US Diagnostics

Zoetis

Andreas Hofmann

Senior Principal Scientist

Novartis

Racha Majed

Technical Sales Specialist

Refeyn

Racha has a PhD in microbiology from France, and moved to England to pursue a postdoc at University of Cambridge for 3 years and started with Refeyn over a year as a Technical Sales Specialist.