Automotive Fleet, October 2018
Mary Haller and Paul Seger the Recognition and Awards Committee co chairs were on stage prior to the announcement of Chuck Novince as the recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award Attendees playfully scored how well Standards Committee Co Chair Matt Arias did during his presentation He received pretty high marks OCTOBER 2018 I AUTOMOTIVE FLEET 49 Dave Sutton stood at the dais to moderate a session on the best practices for applying guidebook values l r Ben Flusberg of RMS Automotive Anil Goyal of Black Book and Brett Nanigian of Kelley Blue Book provided their insights Tim Meta president of the IARA and national remarketing manager at Fifth Third Bank provided one half of the welcoming address that kicked off the 2018 IARA Summer Roundtable Tony Long the executive director of the IARA provided one half of the first days welcoming address During his address he announced that this years event had broken another record in attendance Matt Arias co chair of the IARAs Standards Committee and director of arbitration and information services for Cox Automotive spoke on a topic he is very familiar with arbitration Felipe Smolka the executive vice president of transformation at Lease Plan USA provided the events executive presentation He touched on the adaptations that businesses need to take to keep up and succeed with the industrys changing landscape All of IARAs commitees held meetings prior to the start of the show Matt Arias left co chair of the Standards Committee led a section of the discussion during his committees meeting Bob Griese a former NFL quarterback provided the opening keynote presentation on the first day of this years IARA Summer Roundtable Members of the IARA Canadian Committee attended this years Roundtable There has been a big push this year to Canadianize the CAR curriculum this year and the project has nearly been completed The IARA committee chairs and co chairs were hosted for an appreciation dinner by XLerate Group The pre conference event was held at Quinns restaurant at the JW Marriott which was the host hotel for the 2018 IARA Summer Roundtable l r Two fellow IARA committee co chairs Doug Turner who co chairs the Standards Committee and Paul Seger who cochairs the Recognition and Awards Committee Networking is always an important factor during IARA Summer Roundtables l r Mary Haller of Americas Auto Auction and Cassie Fennell of DESIGNWORKS AMG Inc crossed paths
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