Gregory D. Sunvold

Ph.D. Chief Scientist

With almost 30 years of pet food industry experience and over 500 scientific publications and global patent applications, Dr. Greg Sunvold is recognized for his expertise in pet nutrition to improve and create many diverse pet products marketed globally. After completing his thesis research on the role of fermentable fibers in dog and cat diets and obtaining a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, Dr. Sunvold spent time in various corporate technical roles at P&G with the Iams and Eukanuba brands. He has conducted technology development and clinical research in the microbiome, gastrointestinal health, obesity, diabetes, renal and other area research areas.

Dr. Sunvold’s focus on innovation resulted in his management of a global pet technology patent portfolio. His collaborative research efforts have included isolating novel probiotic strains, clinically demonstrating efficacy of prebiotics, probiotics and other microbiome management tools, and developing novel product forms for delivering live probiotics.

He also has many years of product design and formulation experience that have impacted pet products around the world. Having actively practiced in the microbiome field throughout his career, Dr. Sunvold leverages deep technical knowledge to actively identify ways to apply microbiome innovations into the pet food industry. Throughout his career, Dr. Sunvold has been responsible for implementing nutritional innovations into hundreds of pet food products fed to pets around the world.

Dr Jan Bellows

Board Certified Veterinary Dentist

Dr. Bellows is one of only 190 Board Certified Veterinary Dentists™ in the United States. He began practicing veterinary medicine in 1977 at Pembroke Animal Clinic in Pembroke Pines, FL. Dr. Bellows was certified boarded in Veterinary Dentistry by the American Veterinary Dental College in 1990.

Dr. Bellows grew up in New York, attended the University of Florida for undergraduate training and Auburn University for his veterinary degree. He completed a medicine and surgery internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York City.

Doctor Bellows has received numerous awards in his career including the Florida Veterinary Medical Association Gold Star Award in 2012.

William A. Brenneman

Chief Statistician

William Brenneman is an Adjunct Professor at Goshen College, an Adjunct Professor of Practice at Georgia Tech and a retired Research Fellow and Global Statistics Discipline Leader at Procter & Gamble. Throughout his career at P&G he worked on a wide range of projects that dealt with statistics applications in the areas of design and analysis of physical and computer experiments, reliability, process control and statistical engineering. His practical experience at P&G led to over 20 publications relating to current or new statistical methods. He also directed the Global Statistics Discipline at P&G which consisted of over 60 trained statisticians worldwide working on both clinical and non-clinical applications.

He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Michigan, an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa and a BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education from Tabor College. William is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and a member of the International Statistical Engineering Association (ISEA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences. He has served as ASQ Statistics Division Chair, ASA Quality and Productivity Section Chair, Associate Editor of Technometrics and on the ISEA Advisory Board. William also has eight years of experience as an educator at the high school and college level.

Dr. Gavin Casper 

Veterinary Mobility Specialist

Dr. Gavin Casper grew up in Florida. His love of animals started at a young age surrounded by dogs and horses. At age six, he started training his own dog in obedience, and before entering college, he had experience training and competing in multiple dog sports including Agility and Flyball.

Dr. Casper studied animal science at the University of Florida before moving to Prince Edward Island in Canada and beginning veterinary school at the Atlantic Veterinary College. During veterinary school, Dr. Casper developed a passion for integrative medicine and cultivated an interest in nutrition, rehabilitation, and reducing stress in his veterinary patients.

Dr. Casper is a certified Fear-free veterinarian. He is certified in Veterinary Acupuncture and Chinese veterinary medicine, as well as Veterinary Chiropractic. He loves to spend time with his two- and four-legged family.