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Dan Waters and the Business of What Goes in the Bowl
After building brands around cheese, ingredient-conscious snacks and chocolate, Dan Waters has arrived in pet food with a familiar brief: turn a label into a promise people can understand.
Jaimie Turkington Built a Career Turning Pet-Food Complexity Into Clarity
Long before revenue entered her title, Turkington learned to make complicated products legible. At Petcurean, that skill became the connective tissue between brand, sales, innovation and purpose.
Katie Spies
Katie Spies is the founder and CEO of Maev, the direct-to-consumer brand that made human-grade raw food for dogs a subscription. An MIT-trained engineer who quit tech to spend nearly a year as a full-time dog walker, she built Maev after her rescue dog's health turned around on a raw diet. Since launching in 2020 she has shipped millions of meals, raised roughly $19 million in venture funding, and grown the company by wheat-pasting posters across New York before scaling to paid channels.
Jonathan Regev
Jonathan Regev is the co-founder and CEO of The Farmer's Dog, the fresh, human-grade dog food company he started in 2015 with Brett Podolsky after the two met on a Birthright trip to Israel. A former Bain consultant and Rocket Internet entrepreneur-in-residence, Regev spent over a year planning the business before spending a dollar on infrastructure, building a subscription supply chain that ships pre-portioned, vet-formulated meals direct to dogs' doors. Under his leadership the company crossed more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, turned profitable, and won USA Today's Ad Meter with its 2023 Super Bowl debut.