About Our Founder & CEO
A native of Perth, Western Australia, Damon moved permanently from Australia to the United
States in 2003. His last position in Australia was in Port Melbourne, Victoria working at
the General Motors (Holden) corporate office working on the public relations internal team.
He began his retail automotive career in the United States at John Bleakley Ford in Lithia
Springs, GA in 2004. This experience would provide him with the much needed insights and
valuable understanding of the retail automotive side of the business.
This would ultimately become the springboard that would shape the future of Damon's career
on the automotive agency side of the business. Over the next 20 plus years, Damon has held
several key executive leadership roles across North America as Senior Vice President,
Executive Vice President, and Chief Agency Officer for multiple public and privately held
nationwide Tier III automotive full-service advertising agencies. Damon has led some of the
most trusted and well respected full-service agency teams industry wide and served some of
the largest dealership groups in the nation. Damon has also served several of the highest
volume dealerships in the nation, including six dealerships that were number one in volume
in the entire nation for their specific brand - brands they represented. Damon has also
become a trusted advisor for some of the most well respected F&I companies, M&A firms, OEM
leaders and respective field associates across the country.
A natural agency leader and industry titan who truly knows the car business and the agency
business inside and out. Someone who doesn't just "talk the talk" but also "walks the walk"
and makes BIG things happen for dealerships nationwide. He is known industry wide for
educating dealers and dealer groups on the power of "Getting Comfortable With Being
Uncomfortable" while also understanding the real value behind pure "Vendor Consolidation"
and the importance of client and agency "Swim Lanes" and "Accountability" throughout the
agency and dealership - dealership group journey & partnership.
Damon's a well respected leader in the retail automotive industry and automotive agency
community. His proven, transparent, client first, and results orientated approach
(Consolidate, Collaborate, and Dominate) has helped thousands of dealers coast to coast
dominate in their respective markets and sell and service hundreds, sometimes thousands more
vehicles. Simply put, Damon's a play-maker, a rain-maker, a game-changer, and makes
incredible things happen.