Darryl Rawlings
Founder & Chair of the Board
When Darryl was 14, his family dog needed surgery that could have lengthened her life for another 12 years. The cost was beyond his parents’ means and they left the veterinary hospital without her. He vowed that someday pets would have even better medical insurance than people do. And Trupanion has fulfilled that promise with medical insurance for cats and dogs that is remarkably better than most human health insurance.
Trupanion covered its first pet in Canada in 2000 and expanded to the United States in 2008. Since expanding to the U.S., Trupanion has established itself as a market leader and now provides medical insurance for cats and dogs in the United States, Canada, Australia, parts of Europe, and Puerto Rico. In July 2014, Darryl took this a step further, and lead the company through an IPO. Trupanion is publicly traded on NASDAQ.
Darryl has established himself as a leader in medical insurance for cats and dogs. As founder of Trupanion and founder and member of NAPHIA (North American Pet Health Insurance Association), Darryl set high standards for a growing industry, expanding public awareness of medical insurance for cats and dogs, and expanding the market across North America.
Darryl is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology. His family includes his wife Caroline, two sons Sam and Bennett, and bulldogs Tristen and Priscilla.
