Brent Toellner
Senior Director, National Programs, for Best Friends Animal Society
Brent Toellner is the Senior Director, National Programs, for Best Friends Animal Society. In this role Brent oversees the Regional, Business Intelligence and Network Partner teams for Best Friends. In the role, he works with the Business Intelligence Team to understand the data on the nation’s 4500 brick & mortar shelters and helps to turn that data into strategies for the Regional Teams, and how to engage the organization’s 3100 Network Partners to work toward the goal of ending the killing of shelter pets by 2025. He also helped the Network Partner team to increase the volume of digital resources available as well as introduce new platforms of communication for the Network. Brent joined Best Friends in 2016 as the Regional Director of the South Central and Great Plains Regions and was responsible for connecting, consulting and collaborating with animal shelters, advocates, spay/neuter groups and rescues across the 11 states in the two regions.