Strategy, through to implementation.
A boutique animal health consultancy led by Kathryn Kukla, partnering with organisations across the entire value chain, from pre-revenue startups to public companies.
The practice
Senior counsel that stays for the build.
Most consultants hand you a strategy and leave. Animal Health Experts works the whole arc, from the first roadmap through to the initiatives actually landing inside your business.
Kathryn Kukla brings top-tier strategic expertise to the animal health value chain, the kind organisations usually only access through the large firms, at a scale and rate that fits a boutique engagement. The work spans business strategy, implementation, and mergers and acquisitions for clients from pre-revenue startups to companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Portrait pending
What we do
Three ways we move the work forward.
Business strategy
From a tight 12 to 18 month strategic roadmap for an early-stage company, to a three to five year strategic plan for an established corporate. We define where you are going and the path that gets you there.
Strategy through to implementation
The best strategy is worth little if it never lands. We identify the strategic initiatives and then stay to help implement them, adapting as the market and the world move. That is the part most firms leave to you, and the reason clients keep us close.
Mergers and acquisitions advisory
Sell-side and buy-side diligence across the animal health space, drawing on a career spent valuing, building, and integrating companies along the value chain.
Across the value chain
One practice, fluent everywhere animal health lives.
Veterinary services
Practices, groups, and the platforms that serve them.
Pharma
Animal health pharmaceutical innovators and incumbents.
Retail and distribution
Pharmacy, distribution, nutrition, and supplements.
Companion and exotics
Companion animal and exotics brands and services.
Livestock
Production animal health across the supply chain.
A boutique by design
A one-woman team, with an army of a network behind it.
Animal Health Experts is intentionally lean. Rather than carry a fixed bench, Kathryn pulls in the right vetted specialists for each engagement, the veterinary technicians, manufacturing experts, and analysts a problem actually needs. You get senior attention on your work and exactly the expertise it calls for, with nothing padded in between.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
A defined deliverable on a clear timeline, with the pre-work and post-work mapped up front.
Advisory and coaching
Ongoing senior counsel on an hourly or retained basis for leaders who want a partner in the room.
Strategic facilitation
Designed and led planning sessions that turn a leadership team's thinking into an agreed plan.
New, with Bizarre Bunny
Studio-grade video for animal health, built with AI.
In partnership with AI studio Bizarre Bunny, we now help clients produce immersive education and marketing video at a fraction of traditional cost and turnaround, with no animals on set and no production shutdown. Applied only where it genuinely fits.
Veterinary education
Practice brand films
Product explainers
Consumer and pet owner
Association contentTrack record
A career built across the industry, not beside it.
Ex-McKinsey
Senior strategy experience in the firm's animal health practice.
Carnegie Mellon
Where the Scottie comes from. MMCi-credentialed.
Kisaco and AHTNI
Invited speaker at the industry's animal health innovation conferences.
Board and advisory
Board member, Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh. Advisor, Porter Labs.
Let's talk about what's next.
Whether it is a strategy that needs to land, a deal on the horizon, or a story worth telling, start the conversation.