Pet Industry Trend Setting
Terri L. Maleug-Ray, Founder & CEO of ®Royal Paws
Sunday, August 3 - 9am - 9:45am
Known as a true innovator and trend setter, Ms. Malueg-Ray will provide unique insights as to the current state of affairs and the movement of the pet industry. She will discuss the ever shifting economy so that retailers and manufacturers can emerge successfully and ahead of the pack.
About Terri L. Maleug-Ray, Founder & CEO of ®Royal Paws:
Terri L. Malueg-Ray is President and Founder of several innovative pet services companies. The parent company and original, ®Royal Paws Resort & Day Spa, Ltd provided many innovative pet services and products. Since the company started in 2000. Private pet transportation, private dog park, ultimate pet resort design, pet restaurants and gourmet pet meals are just some of the items which this pet industry pioneer has introduced. Information about these services can be found on the internet at http://movemydog.com and http://royalpaws.com.
Other companies founded by Terri with her love and inherent understanding of pet behavior include ®Royal Paws Dog Park, LLC, ®Pet Tasties, ®Royal Paws Pet Services and Premier Pet Planning. All these companies provide the trademark exclusive and personal pet services and products and could only be designed by someone with the kind of knowledge and expertise that Terri has. The mission statement with any company she carefully designs and operates is “creating a lifestyle of pet luxury and care”. Terri is proud to be referred to as the “Atlanta Dog Expert”. In addition to the aforementioned company leadership, Terri’s pet related operations include nine (9) trademarks and sixteen (16) domain names.
Terri is known throughout the pet industry as a true innovator. She has created many premier products and services and most recently introduced her new line of gourmet pet meals, called Pet Tasties. Terri’s background in engineering, chemistry and computer science provides her the ability to develop, design and execute the creation of the only complete line of healthy, yet tasty brand of gourmet pet meals available in the market today. Following the design of Pet Tasties, Terri utilized her leadership background to provide the first “luxury” ground pet transportation service and open the first pet restaurant in the Atlanta metro area. Both of these very unique, niche services and products made headlines nationwide.
Terri has emerged as a notable pet expert here in the U.S. The author of many published papers most everyone has seen her on some news segment, show or heard her on the radio. You may have seen her on CNN, ABC Radio, TV show Ambush Makeover, ABC, NBC, Fox-5, Atlanta Magazine, Jezebel Magazine and many more.
In addition to her expertise and operations of companies in pet wellness and luxury, Terri is widely recognized as an astute strategist in the manufacturing sectors. She has more than twenty years of proven, executive leadership and has taken several Fortune 500 company key manufacturing locations to significant financial success through performance improvement and management of complex systems. Terri’s education includes B.S., Chemical & Mechanical Engineering and A.D., Chemistry and Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, 1985. M.B.A. studies, University of Florida, successful completion of LSAT, 1998.
Terri currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia in the company of her three Akitas; Paris Athena, Tahoe Acropolis and Delos Milan.