CEO Monthly Issue 3 2018

CEO MONTHLY / ISSUE 3 2018 31 Best Friends Animal Society Names Julie Castle As CEO g At her direction, Best Friends is rallying experts in other fields to discuss new forms of communication and technology and forging new partnerships to help re-engineer some of the ways animal welfare does business. Introducing new self-service and consumer-to- consumer tools, including those that reimagine the adoption process will help to solve some of the movement’s biggest challenges. Best Friends Animal Society is headquartered at the nation’s’ largest no-kill animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah and has regional headquarters and operations in New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Atlanta with a national network of over 2,100 animal welfare partners and programs in over 30 U.S. cities. Best Friends is the nation’s leading animal welfare organisation committed to ending the killing of homeless pets in America’s shelters by 2025. Everyday over 4,100 dogs and cats are killed in America’s Shelters. As a leader of the no- kill movement Best Friends and like-minded organisations are intent on ending this practice. At Best Friends National Conference in 2016, Julie Castle planted a stake on behalf of the organisation declaring that Best Friends Animal Society would lead the country to end the needless killing of dogs and cats in our nation’s shelters by 2025.