who we are
Our Team
Meet the dedicated team behind Prestige Pet Partners, including Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer. As fellow dog business owners, not a private equity firm, we bring hands-on experience and a deep understanding of the pet care industry. Our team combines expertise in dog behavior, business management, and marketing, ensuring your business thrives. Join us for a partnership rooted in passion, excellence, and a shared commitment to success.
Years of Business Experience
Dog-Focused Social Media Followers
Years Owning Successful Dog Businesses
Happy Clients
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Our team
Our World-Class Team Of Experts
Steve Del Savio
Founder & CEO
Stephen Del Savio is the Owner & Founder of Pack Leader Dogs and Maddie Ranch in New Jersey. He has worked with and helped many celebrities, athletes, musicians, actors along with thousands of people and dogs to overcome behavior problems while also providing high level luxury pet care for his clients for over a decade. He has been featured on National Geographic, the New York Post, ABC, SiriusXM and has a large social media following.
Cesar Millan
Training Expert
Cesar Millan is a Mexican-American dog behaviorist who is widely known for his television series “Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan,” broadcast in more than one hundred countries worldwide. Prior to The Dog Whisperer series, Millan focused on rehabilitating severely aggressive dogs and founded the Dog Psychology Center in East Los Angeles which later moved to its permanent home on 43 acres in Santa Clarita, California.
Donald M. Berman
Chairman
Donald M. Berman is the Founder and Executive Chairman of CardWorks, Inc. (stepping aside as CEO in October 2021), the parent company of CardWorks Servicing, Merrick Bank, and Carson Smithfield. Don, as sole founder, has grown CardWorks (established in 1987) into the largest privately held provider of end-to-end operational servicing and support functions for credit card and installment loan products in North America. Don has been instrumental in bringing major banking and non-banking firms into the credit card business, and an influential figure in the financial industry and its evolution over the past three decades.
Dr. Monica Silva
Veterinarian & Pet Resort Operations Expert
Dr. Silva is the Founder & CEO of Country Inn Pet Resort & Animal Hospital just outside of Fort Lauderdale, FL. Opened in 2006, Country Inn has set the standard for Luxury Pet Care with a capacity of over 300 dogs on 8 acres of land and rated one of, if not the top resort in the U.S. Dr. Silva is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who exercised her own private practice specializing in large animals and serving major farms and private clients throughout the region.
B. Robbins Kiessling
Legal Expert
B. Robbins Kiessling is a distinguished attorney with a proven track record in complex financial matters. Prior to retiring from Cravath, Mr. Kiessling led their Financial Institutions practice, where his expertise spanned mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and capital markets transactions. Throughout his career, he represented industry titans like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, solidifying his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent banking and finance lawyers.
Jeff Rohr
Financial Expert
Jeff Rohr is a highly experienced financial executive and former Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Deloitte LLP. In his 40-year career with Deloitte, Jeff led all aspects of financial affairs of Deloitte Global and US Firms, including strategic planning, accounting and financial reporting, risk management, regulatory compliance, technology, treasury, capital adequacy, liquidity, taxes, insurance, and pensions. Jeff served many years as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of American Express National Bank. In that role Jeff worked with the auditors, regulators, and Bank leadership on all aspects of finance, operations, and risk management in a highly innovative and regulated environment.
Yoaciel Cristobal Rosado
Dog Training & Operations Expert
Yoaciel is an entrepreneur and renown dog behaviorist in Puerto Rico and Latin America. He is the Founder & CEO of Pawmily, a well-known pet care business that houses 200+ dogs offering training, walking, day care, boarding & grooming for dogs. He is an expert in high volume, premium dog care and has created his own system for operations that allows for companies to increase volume of animals in care leading to higher revenue, dramatically improved wellbeing of animals in care leading to higher client satisfaction rates and convenience to clients that many clients are seeking more and more.
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With the next chapter of your dog care business beginning, you are now also part of the esteemed community of passionate dog-care owners behind Prestige Pet Partners.
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If you own a dog business and are interested in exploring the idea of selling a portion or all of your business, we would love to have an exploratory conversation with you. Partnering with us could bring exciting opportunities, and our discussion will remain as confidential as a conversation with your dog!
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