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Cord Christensen, Founder and CEO, PetIQ

Cord Christensen self portrait

PetIQ is an animal health and wellness company focused on increasing access to low cost health care for pets. The company owns and operates veterinarian clinics across the United States and manufactures and distributes more than 1,500 pet health care prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications. PetIQ customers include Walmart, Costco, Albertsons, Sam’s Club, Target, PetSmart, and other key food, drug, and mass customers.

Cord Christensen founded PetIQ in 2010 and has served as the CEO and chair since that time. The company has evolved from being started on a card table to a NASDAQ publicly traded company with an enterprise value of more than $1B, more than 3,500 employees, and annual sales in excess of $650MM.

Cord started his career with Albertsons and he has been successful in other executive-level positions in his exceptional career. Cord earned a bachelor of business administration in finance from Boise State University.