Your Pets, Our Pets: Conversations about companion animals, animal health, and the human-animal bond.

In this eposide of Your Pets, Our Pets podcast, Scott Buttz, President & Chief Operating Officer of Regency Pet, speaks with Coleen Ellis, Director of the International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care, also known as IAAHPC. Coleen is a renowned lecturer and educator on pet end of life for both veterinarians and pet families. She’s an entrepreneur owning many companies and is an accomplished author and well-recognized thought leader on the subject of pet death care.

Coleen discusses why she wants every family to think the end of life care for their pets was perfect and the services the IAAHPC provides to ensure this. She shares what she thinks has been the most instrumental change in the industry and where the industry is going in the next decade. She also talks about what was the most exciting thing about the recent IAAHPC virtual conference and what to expect at the upcoming VMX 2022, hosted by North American Veterinary Community (NAVC).

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Why she wants every family to say “The end was perfect.”

QUOTES

• “What’s the beauty of our industry and in our profession right now, Scott, is what do we do with the end of life walk? And my goal and the flag I carry when it comes to this subject is I want every family we work with to turn around and look at us and say, ‘The end was perfect. I have no regrets.’” -Coleen Ellis [05:02]

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:13] Intro

RESOURCES

• North American Veterinary Community

CONNECT

• International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care

SUMMARY

In this episode of Your Pets, Our Pets podcast, Scott Buttz, President & Chief Operating Officer of Regency Pet, speaks with Kevin McAllister, Founder and Managing Partner of Access Holdings.

Kevin founded Access Holding in 2013 and has more than 20 years of private equity experience. He manages and oversees all firm activities. Prior to Access Holdings, he was with Sterling Partners, where he was a member of the investment committee. Kevin also served at American Capital, JP Morgan, Accenture and AT Kerney as an M&A (mergers and acquisitions) banker and strategic consultant respectively.

Kevin shares more about his journey to Access Holdings. He also discusses why culture is important to have at Access Holding and how he builds that culture. Listen as he defines what is a leader and his approach to M&A and buy and build.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Kevin’s journey with Access Holdings

QUOTES

• “And that’s part of the journey for us at Access Holdings, which is sitting down with entrepreneurs and not saying, ‘Hey, I want to buy your business,’ but ‘Where do you see an opportunity in the market? Where do you see the challenges? What would you do if you had a clean sheet of white paper and unlimited capital resources or some experts around digital capabilities.’ So it gives us tremendous pleasure to sit down with folks and help them realize on their potential envision.” -Kevin McAllister [06:17]

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:01] Intro

RESOURCES

• Driving Growth Through Purposeful and Systematic M&A

CONNECT

• Access Holdings website