Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees is a conversation with Jerry Kroshus, who is CEO of Location Services. Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits talks with Kroshus about his career journey in the auto finance, collections/recoveries and remarketing industries. Plus, they chat about Kroshus' time playing football at North Dakota State, where he and his Bison teammates won three national championships, and much more.
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator of the Women in Remarketing panel at Used Car Week, and in her conversation with Auto Remarketing senior editor Joe Overby, she talks about her preparation for that panel, how to get the most out of attending conferences and the keys to her success in the auto industry.
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bill Zadeits joins with Elizabeth Stegall of Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and ICO, and Bethany Johnson from vAuto to preview their Used Car Week workshop. Listen now and you'll get an early preview of their workshop: A 5-Point Plan to Optimize Used Vehicle Profitability.
Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for Allied Solutions remains a friendly and knowledgeable executive at industry events, including Used Car Week. One of this year’s inductees to the Used Car Week Hall of Fame, Igo reflects on her successful career and proven strategies to make the most of in-person industry events.
This sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features two experts from Central Dispatch who offer valuable guidance for choosing a transportation partner. Shanna Wise, who oversees business strategy execution, and Blake Bentley, who leads enterprise client account success, take listeners through the importance of licensing and insurance, handling delays because of weather and other circumstances, and protecting vehicles during transportation.
The auto auction industry has seen a spike in M&A over the last three years, similar to the consolidation in auto retail that has been going on much longer. And our guest today has experience with both. George Pero is president and CEO of Mach10 Automotive, an M&A firm specializing in auto retail. His 34 years of auto industry experience includes founding, operating and successfully selling Auctions in Motion to what is now known as America’s Group Pero joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to share his perspective on M&A activity in auto retail, auto auctions and where the two might overlap.
While the year-over-year figure reflects broader market volatility, Matthew Babcock, who oversees digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, explained the strong quarter-over-quarter increase of the Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index signals market re-engagement. Babcock elaborated about these points and more during an episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.
We throw the keys to the valet on this episode. Clint Curtis is the co-founder and CEO of Zapmoto, which provides valet pickup and delivery of vehicles for servicing at car dealerships. He joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a conversation about the growth of mobile/remote service offerings in auto retail, the origin story of Zapmoto and how its delivery process works, inspiration from service providers like DoorDash and Carvana, plus much more.
Managing delinquencies and repossessions might be as complicated as anything auto lenders do nowadays. To help finance companies of all sizes handle those complexities, this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features Anne Holtzman, who is senior vice president of client experience and risk management services at Allied Solutions. In addition to providing an update on the current landscape, Holtzman offers suggestions on how lenders can get better results more quickly when recovering and remarketing collateral and offers additional guidance on the repossession process and optimizing returns.
Lauren joined PureCars in 2015 as a sales associate, later serving as regional manager, national director and senior vice president before moving up to chief operating officer in January 2023. She was promoted to the new role of president in February 2024. And last month, Donalson became the company’s CEO. She joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to talk about her journey with PureCars, her goals for the company and advice she has for early-career executives looking to take a similar career path.
CarMax chief marketing officer Sarah Lane joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to talk about the company's new “Wanna Drive?” branding, its omni-channel buying and selling experience, putting the customer in control and how CarMax sets itself apart in an era of new car-buying models, technology and changing means of vehicle ownership and usage. Plus, Lane discusses CarMax's first foray into women's professional sports with its WNBA partnership, how automotive advertising has changed in the last 20 years and how CarMax went from "challenger" to "leader" in the used-car market.
Many dealers likely cheered when the CARS Rule from the Federal Trade Commission was vacated by a federal court at the beginning of the year. But long-time Arizona independent dealer Ace Christian believed it wouldn’t be long before similar regulations arrived on the state level. And it’s happened already in California. Christian, who is also CEO of Secure Close, a technology company formed back in 2014 to solve the problem of human error at the time of vehicle delivery, discussed what’s been happening for this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.
David Prusinski is now the co-CEO of Vehicle Management Systems (VMS), which previously operated as EVAI. Prusinski shared about how the company arrived at its new brand and what might be ahead for the provider of data analytics and artificial intelligence-driven fleet management technology.
Andy Mayers sees opportunity in subprime and other parts of auto finance. The associate vice president of business operations for retail solutions with Cox Automotive explained his reasons during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Mayers also mentioned another part of the business where dealers and lenders are working even closer together nowadays.
Laurie Harbour is a partner at Wipfli, a top 25 accounting and advisory firm, and works with automakers and suppliers on how to adjust to changing winds of automotive. Harbour joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to discuss how automakers are rethinking their electric and hybrid vehicle strategies, impact of tariff and trade on the auto industry and much more.
Chip Perry, founding president and CEO of Autotrader and former CEO of TrueCar, has a new role: chairman of sellmyride, a startup seeking to help dealers source inventory from private sellers. Perry and sellmyride founder and president Dom Pope join the show to talk about the origin story of the company, how they connected, vehicle acquisition and much more.
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada's Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of the conference and reflecting on the past two decades in the Canadian used-car industry. They delve into the biggest market movers and changes that have shaped the last 20 years of the Canadian market and explore what's coming next.
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Merritt Critcher, Director of Product Management with CDK speaks with Bill Zadeits about the newest trends and potential for AI and big data to meet and exceed the inventory management needs of dealers. Highlighting speed and consistency, Merrit outlines the tremendous opportunity these technologies can have for dealers.
Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights, said consumers are looking for ways to secure more favorable vehicle financing terms, especially with interest rates leveling out and perhaps a cut coming next week from the Federal Reserve. The base for Zabritski’s assertion came via Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market Report: Q2 2025, which highlighted the volume of auto refinancing increased nearly 70% from a year ago. Zabritski expanded the trends happening inside of auto refinancing during another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast.
In this panel discussion from Canada's Used Car Week in June, Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits talks with leaders from auto finance institutions about the most important metrics, trends and macroeconomic factors in the Canadian used-car landscape. They discuss topics like vehicle affordability, tariff impacts, leasing data, fintech and more.