Janis Hoyt, Chief Officer at Primal Pet Group: Find Your First Believer
Janis Hoyt is Chief Human Resources Officer of Primal Pet Group, and a Mogul Top 100 People Leader of 2026. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, studied sociology at UC Berkeley, and says that is where her interest in people started, because sociology is the study of how people tick.
She began in retail, on Macy's executive training programme, learning gross margin and operations and managing a staff of thirty while she was still young. A rotational assignment took her into human resources and she never left. Then healthcare at Aetna, where she became an HR business partner, and then…
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