Management Team

Phil Shuchat – President, C.E.O., and MC
Leading the SuperDogs into the 21st Century

Leonard Chase - COO, CFO, Director of Cast Member Relations and MC
Entertaining millions for more than two decades

Amy White – Director of Operations & General Manager

Amy’s personal and professional lives have always revolved around her love for, and commitment to, dogs.  She has been a SuperDog® cast member for over ten years, and has shown herself to be a remarkable team player and leader everywhere we perform. 

Amy serves as our Director of Operations and General Manager, bringing that same sense of dedication to her job, along with over fifteen years of experience in the marketing, public relations and journalism fields.  An obedience instructor since 1997, she worked previously as the Director of Communications with the Toronto Humane Society, then as Communication Manager at Earth Ranger.  Until recently she also owned and edited the Dogs, Dogs, Dogs newspaper. 

Amy shares her country home in Ashburn, Ontario, with her five SuperDogs®.
 

Greg Williams – Office Manager

When Greg performed as crew for the SuperDogs® in the mid-1980s while still attending school, little did he know that just a few years later he would be working in the pet industry in a variety of portfolios.  Those first shows at the Ontario Science Centre and the Elmira Sugar Festival seemed at the time more a natural extension of his growing up with prize-winning chow chows than a sign of things to come. 

After graduation from the University of Toronto’s School of Graduate Studies, with degrees in English and Classics, Greg joined Panache Productions as a project coordinator for the Canadian Pet Supply Show, the country’s first pet-industry trade event.  He soon became its vice president and sales manager.  In 1990, he became a full-time employee of Williams Show Productions, specializing in behind-the-scenes administration with the SuperDogs® and serving for three years as show manager of All About Pets, Canada’s first pet-industry consumer show.

With this broad background in the Canadian pet industry, coupled with his extensive experience in competitive dog sports, including flyball and Frisbee with his Jack Russell terrier, Bungee, and his sheltie, Galla, Greg brings a deep understanding of the dynamics of the business of pets to Spot On Entertainment.  He currently serves as manager of the Toronto office and oversees the merchandising branch of the company operations.     

 

Dante Camacho – Cast Manager

Dante has performed with the SuperDogs® since the summer of 2007.  Over the past four years, his dazzling work as a cast member in shows all across Canada has made him an inspiring touchstone of excellence in his field, a genuine model of precision training and handling dogs.

Originally from Brazil, Dante is passionate about dog training and performing.  He began fourteen years ago, and in the years since then he has been active in all the traditional dog sports as a trainer, teacher, and competitor.  He has even travelled the world.  Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Peru, and Mexico, are just some of the countries familiar with his sure and inspiring work.

Dante’s creativity and amazing dog-training skills, exemplified particularly in his graceful dance routines, make him one of the most respected trainers in the country.  It was only natural that he would be a perfect fit for the SuperDogs® Show.  He joined the company on a full-time basis this summer.  As well as being an inspiring leader to the cast, he strives to develop new events and to choreograph new routines to ensure that the production remains vibrant and fun with each passing year.
 

Jon Cunningham - Production Manager

Jonathan joined the management team of the President’s Choice^® SuperDogs^® in 2011, quickly rising to the position of Production Manager. That he fits so well with the rest of the team comes as no surprise: he first became involved with the exciting world of dogs through his high-school co-op program which landed him a job at SuperDog Central in Bowmanville. Over time he learned the technical elements of production and, in offering a diverse set of skills, has made a natural transition to taking charge of the sets and music of the SuperDogs^® show.

Jonathan has travelled widely in Europe, and he looks forward to extending his reach throughout North America with the President’s Choice^® SuperDogs^®.  Already he has travelled to Denver, Kitchener, and Brandon, in addition to working on home-town shows at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto.

Jon’s hobbies include outdoor sports, especially golf, and doing video production for hockey, lacrosse, and football teams. He also likes to play Frisbee with his dog Stryker, a Belgian Tervuren-Australian Shepherd mix. At present, however, he has no ambition to perform in the President’s Choice^® SuperDogs^® show.