Josh White
Chief Executive Officer
Dog Name: Cooper
Favorite Breed: Australian Shepherd
Our mission at Wag’n Tails is to help mobile pet care professionals be successful. Since the founding of Wag’n Tails, we have built our reputation on innovation, common sense, and customer service, and we continue to lead the industry because these core values still define our company.
1971
Our family formed Wag’n Tails and opened the first grooming salon in St. Paul, MN. Within five years, Wag’n Tails was operating six pet grooming salons.
1976
To better serve its clients and their pets, Wag’n Tails decided to go mobile and converted two pet grooming vans. By 1980, Wag’n Tails had six pet grooming vehicles serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
1980
Wag’n Tails relocated to Howell, MI. Over the next ten years, its mobile pet grooming business grew to twenty-two mobile pet grooming vehicles and two pet grooming salons serving central and southeastern Michigan.
1994
Wag’n Tails sells their first mobile grooming van conversion.
1996
Wag’n Tails recognized the value proposition and growing demand for mobile pet grooming services and made the decision to transition its business model and become a manufacturer of specialty pet grooming vehicles. The Company’s founder, Dina Perry, designed a pet grooming vehicle and developed a mobile business plan to help customers ensure success.
Our Team Members
Steve Wedding
Chief Financial Officer
Favorite Breed: English Setter
Chaz Bellman
Director of Grooming Sales
Favorite Breed: The stray that needs me
Obadiah “Obi” Counsellor
Controller
Favorite Breed: Golden Retriever
Allyson Balmer
Accounts Payable
Dog Name: Charlie & Griffin
Favorite Breed: Beagle & Lab
Rory Leitch
Head of Customer Experience
Dog Name: Maisie
Favorite Breed: Miniature Schnauzer
CJ Hollars
Customer Care Associate
Favorite Breed: Husky
Cody Smith
Customer Care Associate
Favorite Breed: Siberian Husky
Bradey Szekendy
Senior Sales Consultant
Dog Name: Jackson
Favorite Breed: Labrador
Christine Lake
Senior Sales Consultant
Favorite Breed: Pomchi
Fredi Jimenez
Sales Consultant
Dog Name: Lilly & Manny
Favorite Breed: Malamute/Lab & Boxer/Lab
Jenny Skalla
Sales Coordinator
Favorite Breed: Corgie
Jeremy Parker
Graphic Designer
Dog Name: Nacho & Rosco
Favorite Breed: Chinese Pug
Katelyn Gerstenschlager
Marketing Specialist
Favorite Breed: Golden Retreiver
Mike Dicken
Sr. Videographer
Favorite Breed: American Staffordshire Terrier
Shaffia Galis-Menendez
Grooming Expert
Dog Name: Aurora
Favorite Breed: Poodle
James DeMorrow
Plant Manager
Favorite Breed: Brittany Spaniel
Fariz Afzal
Engineering Manager
Favorite Breed: Husky & Labrador Retriever
Rick Bortone
Purchasing Manager
Favorite Breed: Beagle
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Careers at Wag’n Tails
Wag’n Tails has built its reputation in the marketplace over decades by hiring talented, hard-working, and honest people. We have created a workplace culture committed to mutual respect, teamwork, innovation, transparency, and accountability. Our employees are common sense professionals. They are masters of their craft dedicated to delivering best of breed products and excellent customer service. There has never been a better time to join us. Wag’n Tails offers highly competitive compensation and benefits that are attractive to employees in every stage of their career. At Wag’n Tails, you will have the opportunity to achieve your professional goals and be part of a visionary company that is improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and pet care professionals around the world!
Wag’n Tails is the global leader in designing, engineering, and manufacturing specialty vehicles for the mobile pet care industry. We also provide our customers with vehicle training, on-going consulting services, and a mobile pet grooming or mobile veterinary business success guide that empowers pet care professionals to win.
If you share our company values, please email us at careers@wagntails.com.