CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards

53 CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards 2018 USA KRISTIN PECK Executive Vice President and Group President, US Operations, Business Development and Strategy at Zoetis Five years ago, Kristin Peck left her senior executive role at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to join its animal health division being spun off as a new company. When Zoetis (pronounced zoh-EH-tis) went public in 2013, this little known animal health start-up was trading at $26 a share. But Kristin was up to the challenge, driven by her passion to improve the lives of animals and the desire to build something new. Today, Zoetis is the world’s leading global animal health company with a stock price of more than $80 a share and more than $5 billion in revenue. And Kristin is Executive Vice President and Group President, US Operations, Business Development and Strategy - overseeing the livestock and petcare businesses for the company’s largest market with $2.6 billion in revenue. It turns out the animal health industry is a strong, reliable and growing sector – a $31 billion market fueled by rising pet ownership and a world population hungry for meat, dairy and fish. As the global leader in that space, Zoetis provides the medicines and vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices, feed additives and parasiticides as well as genetics and data analytics to improve the productivity of livestock and the health of companion animals.