Susanne Kogut joined the Petco Foundation as Executive Director in June 2013. In addition to serving as the President of the Petco Foundation, Susanne is the Vice Chair of HABRI’s (Human Animal Bond Research Institute) Board of Trustees. Before joining the Foundation, she served as the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA Executive Director, where she transformed the open-admission SPCA into an award-winning, nationally recognized lifesaving model. Prior to that, Susanne held several positions at Capital One Financial Corporation and was an attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Brown & Wood. Susanne shares her home her with five dogs and a variety of different foster pets.