149: Staffing Shortages and the Changing Landscape of Veterinary Medicine

Dave Lasus is the CEO of Heart + Paw. He is a dedicated, collaborative, and entrepreneurial executive with extensive experience strategically and aggressively scaling business operations, footprint and financial results for rapidly growing companies. Lasus employs a dynamic background in QSR, Veterinary, Multi-site retail/service, Consulting and Real Estate Development companies to craft both efficient and profitable systems. He's adept at multifunctional oversight, capability building, performance management and data-driven decision making. He have a strong record of success identifying, navigating and resolving business challenges to accelerate outcomes. Most notably, Lasus has: • Driven more than 600% EBITDA growth for a QSR chain. • Facilitated expansion by up to 25 new stores per year. • Innovated new product opportunities that have delivered double digit percentages of total sales. His colleagues and co-workers describe him as thorough, enthusiastic, passionate and responsive. He's best known for maintaining a keen pulse on all aspects of operations and fostering agile responses to market trends.