Our Core Values
Impact
Driven
We prioritize meaningful, measurable actions that advance sustainability while strengthening the pet industry. By championing innovative, transformative solutions that drive both environmental outcomes and business success, we help companies increase efficiency, build resilience, and grow responsibly.
Inclusive
We believe that businesses are essential participants in a sustainable future, no matter if they are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. We need everyone involved in the pet industry to participate to achieve the scale of change needed, and emphasize progress over perfection.
Culture of Trust
We assume the best in each other, and hold each other mutually accountable. We build trust by speaking up when we need support, bringing radical honesty to internal conversations, listening to each other, and valuing growth mindsets.
Solutions
Focused
In our culture, we don’t just raise issues—we actively seek out and propose solutions. We are committed to identifying challenges early and bringing forward new ideas and opportunities that drive positive change and move the organization forward.
Collective Ownership
We believe in taking ownership of challenges as a team. When we see an issue or a colleague in need, we step in. Together, we achieve more by being proactive and collaborative. We know the only way to tackle the small and large problems facing our planet is together and without ego. We pitch in to help, lift each other up, elevate our staff and members as much as possible and know that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Board of Directors
PSC relies on the strategic direction of its Board of Directors who meet quarterly to hear member feedback, provide guidance and ensure the organization maintains credible progress toward its mission. Please feel free to reach out to any of the Board members below any time.
Dustin Dover
Chair
Chris Bentley
Co-Founder
Caitlyn Dudas
Co-Founder
Stephanie Volo
Chair Emeritus
Rebecca Rose
Treasurer
Joanne Dwyer
Vice Chair
Brian Steinwagner
Executive Vice President Business Development
Adam Kay
European Board Representative
Michael Seitz
Our Team
The internal team at PSC devotes their time and energy to drive our mission forward by engaging with our community, communicating our goals, ensuring the tools and resources our members need to succeed are of the highest caliber and aiming to change the pet industry for the better through real sustainable change.
Chloe DiVita
(she/her)
Interim Managing Director / Director of Growth
Allison Reser Hamburger
(she/her)
Director of Sustainability and Innovation
Sophie Gildesgame
(she/her)
Director of Operations & Finance
Hannah Tirrell-Wysocki
(she/her)
Senior Accreditation Manager
Hannah Hintz
(she/her)
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Amanda Duffy
(she/her)
Sr. Sustainable Business Account Manager
Lauren Rosenmayer
(she/her)
Sr. Sustainable Business Account Manager
Cawood Habenicht
(she/her)
Membership & Growth Manager
Allison Burdick
(she/her)
Sustainability Advisor
Alexandra Flynn
(she/her)
Marketing Manager
Tyler McCafferty
(she/her)
Sustainability Project Associate
Our Story
The Pet Sustainability Coalition (PSC) began with a simple but radical idea: that the choices we make for pets can also help protect the planet we share.
What started in 2013 as a grassroots collaboration between pet industry leaders and sustainability experts has grown into a global movement of more than 200 member companies across 18 countries and 5 continents, all united by a shared vision of a thriving, sustainable pet industry.
PSC was founded by Chris Bentley and Caitlyn Bolton Dudas, whose shared belief in the power of business to drive positive change brought the Coalition to life. From the beginning, PSC was supported by visionary leaders from eight founding companies: KONG Company, Cardinal Pet Care, Petco, West Paw, Planet Dog, Worldwise, Only Natural Pet, and I and Love and You. Their early investments and leadership helped establish a framework for collective impact that remains central to PSC’s work.
More than a decade later, PSC has evolved into a trusted voice for sustainability, empowering companies to measure, improve, and communicate their environmental performance while driving industry-wide progress.
Today, PSC stands as proof of what’s possible when an industry unites around purpose. Together, we’re creating a future where every product, partnership, and choice for pets supports a sustainable, flourishing planet for all.
We’re extremely proud to say that we’ve earned our Platinum Seal of Transparency with @CandidDotOrg [Guidestar]!
Special Thanks to our Partners:
“I believe sustainability is one cornerstone to the future of the pet food industry. We’re proud to welcome the PSC team as a supporting partner that offers high-value content and community engagement which helps move the industry in a more sustainable direction.”
– Steve Akins, Executive VP of Global Petfood & Events at WATT Global Media.
“KibbleLab is committed to helping pet parents make confident, informed decisions about the products they choose. Adding PSC Accreditation to our platform gives users access to credible sustainability information from an independent third-party source while recognizing brands that are demonstrating real leadership in responsible business practices.”
– Austin Saunders, Co-Founder of KibbleLab