Lyssa Mcgowan

Lyssa McGowan

Chief Executive Officer +
Lyssa Mcgowan

Lyssa McGowan

Chief Executive Officer

Lyssa was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer of Pets at Home in June 2022.

Lyssa is a highly experienced leader, most recently as Sky UK’s Chief Consumer Officer where she had end-to-end responsibility for Sky’s Consumer businesses serving more than 10 million customers and achieving over $10bn of revenue. Lyssa was also a non-executive director of Morrisons until its recent sale to CD&R and has previously held roles at McKinsey and Telewest.

Mike Iddon 2

Mike Iddon

Chief Financial Officer +
Mike Iddon 2

Mike Iddon

Chief Financial Officer

Mike joined Pets at Home in September 2016 as Group Chief Financial Officer.

Mike was the Chief Financial Officer of New Look from 2014 until 2016. Prior to this, Mike held a number of finance roles at Tesco plc over a period of thirteen years, with his final position as Group Planning, Treasury and Tax Director. Before this he held finance roles with Kingfisher plc and Whitbread plc. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. Mike was recently appointed as a non-executive director at Wickes Group Plc.

Kathryn Imrie

Kathryn Imrie

Chief Consumer Officer +
Kathryn Imrie

Kathryn Imrie

Chief Consumer Officer

Kathryn joined Pets at Home as Chief Consumer Officer following 18 years at TV and communications giant, Sky. Kathryn was a key member of a team that delivered a track record of consistent growth and transformation. In her most recent role as Chief Consumer Officer at Sky Deutschland, she helped lead the repositioning of the consumer business, implemented a data-led marketing approach, and enabled the business to reach its highest ever subscriber numbers.

William Hewish

William Hewish

Chief Information Officer +
William Hewish

William Hewish

Chief Information Officer

William joined the business in March 2019 as Chief Information Officer. Over his career William has been at the centre of driving change in technical platforms for many blue chip companies and was most recently CIO at United Utilities where he spent the last several years leading the technology, data and business change teams.

Louise Stonier

Louise Stonier

Chief Operating Officer, Vets +
Louise Stonier

Louise Stonier

Chief Operating Officer, Vets

Louise is Chief Operating Officer of the Vet Group. She first joined Pets at Home in 2004 as Head of Legal and Company Secretary, and was promoted to Group Legal Director and Company Secretary in 2008. Louise subsequently held the roles of Chief People and Legal Officer from 2017 to 2019 and Group Chief People and Culture Officer from 2019 to 2022. Louise was also the Chair and Trustee of The Pets at Home Foundation from 2004 until 2022. A graduate of Nottingham University with an LLB (Hons) Law, Louise is a qualified solicitor and started her career at CMS Cameron McKenna as a trainee solicitor in 1997, later moving to DLA Piper LLP as an associate in the Corporate Team.

Lisa Miao

Lisa Miao

Chief Operating Officer, Retail +
Lisa Miao

Lisa Miao

Chief Operating Officer, Retail

Lisa has extensive retail experience gained over 25 years working in the industry. She joined Pets at Home as Commercial Director in 2015 having previously held senior positions at several well-known retailers.
Prior to joining Pets at Home, Lisa spent 15 years at Asda Walmart leading the trading divisions of the business, then moved to Morrisons for five years as the Commercial Director for Food and General Merchandise.
A commercially astute and people-driven leader, Lisa has a long and proven track record of delivering in fast-growing markets as well as mature categorie

Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams

Chief Legal Officer +
Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams

Chief Legal Officer

Lucy joined Pets at Home in 2011 as a Solicitor and was promoted to Head of Legal of the Vet Group in 2014. She left in 2017 to join Arla Foods, the Danish dairy cooperative and one of the largest FMCG business in the UK, as Head of Legal. She returned to Pets at Home in 2019 as Group Legal Director and was appointed to the role of Company Secretary in 2020. Lucy was appointed to the role of Chief Legal Officer in 2022 and took on the interim role of Acting Chief People Officer in 2023.