CAREER-VIEW MIRROR - biographies of colleagues in the automotive and mobility industries.

Ed is a leading global expert in professional management, sales strategy, and performance management. He is a former principal consultant for the Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company, and operates The Eppley Group. He has worked with executive teams at multinational companies across the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, and Australia. His clients include a “Who’s Who” of business category leaders suc...

Rupert is Head of Data Communications at Cazoo and Deputy Chair of the UK’s Vehicle Remarketing Association. He’s an industry expert and business leader with over 35 years experience in all areas of the UK and European automotive market. He specifically enjoys driving change to maximise digital footprint and data excellence, with a focus on the identification of new exciting and profitable commerc...

David is the Commercial Manager (UK & Ireland) for Arrival Automotive UK. He is an experienced fleet industry professional specialising in safe, green and efficient fleet management having worked across the fleet industry for 25 years with several different leasing and daily rental companies as well as the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and Zurich Insurance. Over the last 15 years as a Fleet Consul...

Johanna Stepan is Chief Strategy Officer at the Premium Ride-Hailing Joint Venture between Daimler and Geely in China. She played a key role in setting up this first Joint Venture between the two automotive companies in 2019 and in her current role, she is responsible for Strategy and International Business. Prior to that, Johanna has been working at Daimler for 7 years in both strategic and opera...

Brian Allan is currently the President, of HyreCar Inc.  He started his automotive retail career in 1980 in Beverly Hills, California selling Lincoln, Mercury, Peugeot and Lotus vehicles while attending University. In 1985, Brian joined what became the Galpin Premier Collection, a division of Galpin Motors in Los Angeles in California.   Brian has served on numerous automotive manufacturer dealer...

After four and a half years helping Tesla to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, Ross Forder realised that the unsustainable food industry also urgently required disruption and so, in 2017, he left Tesla and founded the vegan fast food brand Halo Burger . Halo Burger now has sites in Brixton, Shoreditch and Brighton and is planning its first full scale restaurant.  Ross w...

Adrian Davies is an experienced global automotive leader and non-executive director who has worked for leading brands such as a Bentley Motors, Bugatti Automobiles, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover - as well as spending time outside the sector consulting with Accenture; his current focus is on sustainable mobility solutions, driving services ecosystem strategies and organisational transformation in compl...

Peter is the Executive Vice President of Netsol Technologies Americas Inc., responsible for overseeing the company's business strategy, operations, financial performance, investments, and ventures.  Prior to joining Netsol, Peter spent ten years as Director of Operations for Daimler Financial Services Africa, Asia and Pacific in Singapore. This regional role followed an extensive internationa...

Ian joined Auto Trader in the UK in 2017, with over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry. In his current role, he is responsible for leading Auto Trader’s relationships with automotive manufacturers, lenders and franchised retailers to ensure value and revenue for them in both new and used car sales.   Prior to joining Auto Trader, Ian worked at Volkswagen where he was Director of Sal...

Shankar is a Senior Leader with international experience in Automotive Financial Solutions delivering large-scale platforms with a track record of change management in the USA, China, South Korea, and Singapore with BMW Financial Services. Shankar is adept in both disciplined agile and waterfall technologies delivering cloud-based SaaS platforms to clientele.    Shankar currently serves as lead st...

Matt is the Head of Retail at SG Fleet in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining SG Fleet in 2019 he spent 10 years with BMW Group Financial Services in roles across Insurance, retail financial services, fleet and mobility in Australia and in China. During those ten years he spent time as Head of Fleet and Extended Retail, Head of Alphera Financial Services, Manager - Mobility Services in Australi...

Lito is the Chief Executive Officer of SandBox Middle East . Based in Dubai, SandBox is the exclusive importer and distributor of great Filipino brands such as Delimondo, Arce Dairy and Pacquiao Coffee across the Middle East. Prior to his current role Lito was General Manager, Brand and Product Marketing at Al Futtaim Toyota in the UAE.  He spent four years in Saudi Arabia marketing Toyota and Lex...

Tom is the Mobility Services Innovation Manager for BMW Financial Services USA. In 2020 he returned to the United States having spent five years as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for BMW Financial Services in Japan and three years as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for BMW Financial Services in India. He has been General Manager Marketing Communications for BMW Financial Services USA and his...

Peter is the Managing Director DAF Hungary and Hungarotruck at DAF Hungary.  Peter worked over 8 years in the field of car financing for several large Hungarian financial institutions before moving to Australia during the 2009 economic crisis.   He studied business in Melbourne and then worked for BMW Australia Finance as a consultant. BMW soon recognized Peter’s ambitious and dynamic nature and h...

Brett is a Data Engineer & Analyst.  Having worked for four years at Tesla in Fremont in California and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and having spent a year building a data infrastructure for an Agricultural Fintech start up in Kenya, he is now building data systems with Whetstone.ai, a consulting company focused on high stakes industries like finance, healthcare, and life sciences.  He’s lev...

Ian recently left the BMW Group after 22 years during which he worked in five international markets including the headquarters in Munich. His most recent role was as CEO of BMW Group Financial Services USA and Americas, a role which he held for almost 5 years.  Ian was born in the UK and he spent the first 8 years of his career there in a variety of Sales and Business Development Functions.  In 19...

Sherene is the COO of BMW Financial Services in Thailand. She has over 25 years experience in the Banking Industry, 20 of which have been spent at BMW Financial Services. Sherene has profound experience in operations specifically centered around customer service excellence and continuous process improvement including Robotic Process Automation and AI.  Over those 25 years, Sherene has navigated he...

Holger is the founder of Torque IT Solutions and the former Managing Director of Mercedes Benz Financial Services New Zealand. Prior to taking up the MD role, Holger was the CFO and Head of Operations at MBFS New Zealand.   It was originally an interest in project finance that attracted Holger to join the Management Associate Program at DaimlerChrysler Financial Services and after a series of assi...

Murad is the Chief Product and Technology Officer for OTOZ Mobility which provides business to business white label technology solutions for new mobility.  Otoz is a start up wholly owned and backed by Netsol, one of the most established technology players globally in the traditional asset finance and leasing market. Murad is spearheading OTOZ Mobility product and platform strategy as its co-found...

Daniel is an international expert in automotive financial and mobility services with more than 20 years’ experience in the finance and banking industry. He is currently CEO for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.  Prior to this, he worked as Global Head of Strategy for Daimler Mobility in Stuttgart and has held various management positions around the globe - ...

Christian retired in May 2020 from a long and distinguished career with BMW Group. His final role which he held for ten years was as Regional Manager EMEA, that's Europe, Middle East and Africa for BMW Group Financial Services.    Christian has the distinction of having worked during his career in every division of the BMW Group apart from Research and Development. He began his journey in HR,...

Spencer is the Chief Commercial Officer of Alphabet (GB) Ltd. Alphabet is BMW Group's multi-make fleet management and leasing business. It is represented in 31 markets worldwide and operates over 700,000 vehicles.  Spencer's career spans over 25 years in motor finance with Lloyds Bowmaker, PSA, VW Financial Services and BMW Group Financial Services.  Prior to taking over his position at...

Nicola is currently Senior Manager Partnership Development at Black Horse Finance the motor finance arm of Lloyds Banking Group here in the UK. She's spent 17 years with Lloyds Banking Group in a variety of roles including operations management, account management and now partnership development for the automotive industry.  In our conversation we talk about how she's taken ownership of...

Steve is the founder of [M]enable whose purpose is to work with organisations within the Automotive Industry to drive and change cultures, so that Mental Health discussions are embraced and encouraged – to sustain performance and growth.   Steve's career has spanned 35 years in the UK motor industry including time with GMAC and Volkswagen Financial Services. He has previously founded his own...

Peter is Senior Manager, Commercial Learning and Development at Rivian. Prior to joining Rivian he was resonsible for Learning, Community Education & Growth Operations at Airbnb. He started his career at Tesla as a Delivery Experience Specialist before moving into training and then Learning and Development. During his seven years at Tesla he spent time in Los Angeles, Oslo, Amsterdam, Fremont...