Manheim

Sandy Schwartz

President

Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz is president of Manheim and AutoTrader Group, both subsidiaries of Cox Enterprises. Headquartered in Atlanta, Manheim is the world's leading provider of vehicle remarketing services. Worldwide, the company handles nearly 8 million used vehicles annually, facilitating transactions representing more than $50 billion in value.

Most recently, Schwartz served as president of Cox Media Group, Inc., an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing, and digital media company. Prior to that, he was president of Cox Auto Trader, producer of paid and free publications serving consumers and dealers in the automotive market.

Schwartz joined Cox in 1985 and served in various roles of increasing responsibility including president of Cox Arizona Publishing, executive vice president of the Austin American‐Statesman, vice president and general manager of The Atlanta Journal‐Constitution, executive vice president of Cox Newspapers, and vice president of business development for Cox Enterprises. Schwartz resides in Atlanta with his wife Sue and has two grown children, Jonathan and Stephanie. He enjoys golfing, working out, running, and cycling.

John Bailey

Executive President, International Operations

John Bailey John Bailey is President of Manheim's International division which encompasses vehicle remarketing operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

Previously Chief Executive of Manheim Europe, John was promoted to this extended role in December 2011 having joined Independent Car Auctions (ICA), the then family business, straight from college in 1979 when it comprised a single auction centre based in Bristol.

Under John's ambitious leadership ICA went on to buy a number of other auction centres to extend its network before entering into a partnership with Manheim in the US in 1996 which enabled it to further expand its UK presence. A number of acquisitions followed which included two major competitors along with a number of complementary businesses that have established Manheim as a major force in the UK.

John is married with one daughter and two step-daughters and resides in Bristol in the UK

Janet Barnard

Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer

Janet Barnard is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Manheim. In this role, she acts as a member of Manheim's executive leadership team, overseeing several of the groups at Manheim engaged in helping to transform the company's core business into one that seamlessly incorporates an expanding online and mobile strategy with a large brick-and-mortar footprint of more than 100 operating locations worldwide. Groups that report to Janet within the company include the Manheim Operations, Sales, Technology, and Digital departments.

Barnard most recently served as senior vice president and general manager for Cox Communications' Central Region. In that role, she was responsible for growing $1.2 billion region in voice, data and video services across residential and commercial base of 710,000 customers; planned and led the largest system integration in CCI to date totaling 175 communities across five states while achieving all growth targets and leading the company in OCF margin growth. Prior to that role, Barnard served as senior vice president and general manager for other Cox Communications regional business areas including Northern Virginia, Middle America, and Omaha. While at CCI, she earned a remarkable track record of achieving both financial and operational results. Throughout her career, she has been instrumental in developing strong leaders; building results-oriented teams; and most importantly, serving as a catalyst for innovative, creative customer and workplace strategies.

Prior to joining CCI, Barnard began her career in finance roles where she was consistently promoted to positions of increasing responsibility. In her first role with CCI as the vice president of Business Operations she was ultimately responsible for all financial aspects of the organization including strategic business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and inventory management for 173,000 video, data, and telephone customers.

Barnard was recognized in 2010 as a Betsy Magness Leadership Institute Fellow, which honors the most successful female leaders in the cable and telecommunications industry.

Barnard graduated from the University Of Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in accounting.

Lilicia Bailey

SVP and Chief People Officer

For more than 25 years, Lilicia Bailey has been a trailblazer and an advocate for implementing effective employee strategies, representing two outstanding international organizations: The Home Depot and Cox Enterprises.

In 1985, Bailey joined The Home Depot where she led large-scale change initiatives while holding various leadership positions for more than 17 years. She then joined Cox in 2002 as director of organizational development.

Bailey joined Manheim, a Cox subsidiary in 2003. Over the next few years, she progressively took on more responsibilities, and in 2009 Bailey was named senior vice president and chief people officer of Global People Strategies and Administration for Manheim. In this position, she is the chief executive overseeing human capital strategy reporting to the president and is responsible for multiple enterprise-wide practices in support of the company's mission and operating plans. Working with the executive team, Bailey has executive oversight of Manheim's HR practices, corporate communications, and legal administration.

She is a member of Manheim's executive board and leads the company's global human capital strategy, which includes oversight of multiple practices: Employee Shared Service Centers and HR Business Partners; Organizational Effectiveness; Corporate Communications; Change Leadership; Executive Development and Training; Talent Management; and Global Employee Engagement. Bailey has made a significant impact on the business with measurable results, and she has been recognized by a number of professional organizations for her efforts. Under her leadership, Manheim has been recognized as a "Best Place to Work for People 50 and Over" by the AARP in 2008, 2009 and 2011. In May 2011, Bailey was named by the Atlanta Business League (ABL) as one of "Atlanta's Top 100 Black Women of Influence." And most recently, Auto Remarketing magazine included her as a member of its "2011 Women in Remarketing" list.

In addition to her significant accomplishments in the corporate world, Bailey has demonstrated a strong commitment to the communities in which she has lived and worked. She has held various non-profit board leadership positions at Cobb Family Resources, Girl's Inc. and Communities in Schools of Georgia. She is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2010 and chair-elect for Communities in Schools of Georgia.

Bailey graduated from Spelman College with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and has a Presidential/Key Executive MBA from Pepperdine University.

Joe Luppino

SVP and Chief Financial Officer

Joe Luppino is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Manheim. He is responsible for all finance functions including providing oversight for compliance, financial reporting, and business planning. He also oversees Manheim real estate and construction, Manheim Financial Services (MAFS), as well as the Total Resource Auctions business. Luppino assumed his current role in August 2006. Manheim is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc. headquartered in Atlanta with over 32,000 employees worldwide.

Prior to that, he served as Manheim's vice president and chief information officer. He took on that role in January 2004, after joining Manheim in 2000 as Manheim Interactive's vice president and chief operating officer. Prior to that time, Luppino served as executive director of marketing operations for Manheim's parent company, Cox Enterprises, Inc.

He has also served as the vice president of operations for Cox's TeleCom Towers, where he oversaw operations and the maintenance of Cox's telecommunication towers. Luppino began his career with Cox Enterprises in 1991 as vice president and general manager of Optical Data Corporation, an educational publisher of multi-media products.

Luppino is on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter. He is also a graduate of St. Peter's College with a bachelor of arts degree in accounting.

Joe George

SVP Product Development

Joe George, Senior Vice President of Product Development, oversees long-range product development processes, including researching and analyzing new or improved products, services and partnerships that provide strategic and unique competitive advantages. He is also responsible for the evolution of Manheim's digital marketplace, including Manheim Simulcast, OVE.com, Manheim.com, mobile services, and multiple product solution platforms. He focuses on maximizing the collective strengths of Manheim's digital and in-lane product lines.

Prior, Joe was group vice president of Manheim Digital. In that role, Joe was responsible for the profit and loss of Manheim's digital marketplace. That also included Manheim Simulcast, OVE.com, Manheim.com, Manheim's mobile services and multiple digital client solution platforms.

Joe joined Manheim more than 21 years ago as an auction employee and held numerous positions, including marketing manager, general sales manager, and assistant general manager. He joined AutoTrader.com in 1998 and led several efforts as the company grew from a startup to the industry's leading retail classified online destination. Joe held various positions including vice president of Dealer Services, vice president and chief product officer, senior vice president of Operations, Customer Service, and Information Technology, and senior vice president of Strategic Alliances.

Joe then joined AutoTrader.com's parent company, Cox AutoTrader, as vice president of Strategy and Business Development. He subsequently was promoted to president of Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart.

After merging Cox's print classified business into AutoTrader.com operations, Joe returned to AutoTrader.com as general manager/vice president of Private Party Advertising. Joe rejoined Manheim as group vice president, Digital Solutions in 2009.

Joe, a veteran of the automotive industry, holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University. He remains active in the community by volunteering with Georgia Special Olympics, St.Vincent de Paul Society, Marist Way, and as chairman of the board of trustees for Notre Dame Academy.

Michael Noel

Chief Technology Officer

Michael Noel

Mike Langhorne

SVP Business Development

Mike Langhorne is Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence. In this role, he oversees the business development, operational excellence, and process engineering teams and focuses on developing existing business as well as acquiring new opportunities.

Most recently, he served as senior vice president of international operations, overseeing Europe, Asia, and Canada and pursuing some of Manheim's new business opportunities in China, Canada, and Export. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer. In that role, he was responsible for all financial and related functions within Manheim, including accounting, treasury, Manheim Automotive Financial Services, Remarketing Solutions, and daily operations in Australia and New Zealand.

Langhorne joined Manheim as a senior accountant in 1984 and was promoted to controller in 1991. He served as Manheim's vice president of financial services from 1996 to 2003.

He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and has a master's degree in business administration from Georgia State University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and the Georgia Society of CPAs.

Nick Peluso

SVP Customer Management

Nick Peluso is Senior Vice President of Customer Management for Manheim, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation's leading media companies and providers of automotive services. He is responsible for the Factory, Commercial and Dealer Sales, Marketing and Manheim Consulting groups. Aligning Manheim's customer management teams is one of Peluso's key focuses.

Peluso was promoted to his current role in 2002 from president of Remarketing Solutions, the division of Manheim that met the evolving needs of the vehicle-remarketing marketplace through its Inspection Solution, Recovery Solution, Title Solution, Auction Solution, Fleet Solution, and Transport Solution.

Prior to joining Manheim in October 2000, Peluso was vice president of sales and marketing for ADT Automotive, Inc. Peluso joined ADT Automotive in May of 1990 as regional director of sales and in 1992 he was promoted to director of sales, with a primary focus on directing the company's national sales team. Before joining ADT Automotive, Peluso, a native of Oakland, California, was with Cenval Leasing of Walnut Creek, California.

Ashish Bisaria

SVP Customer Experience

Ashish Bisaria, Senior Vice President of Customer Experience, acts as the "Voice of the Customer," leading the development and execution of initiatives that enable Manheim to deliver world-class customer experiences. He reports to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Janet Barnard.

Ashish brings 17 years of global customer service experience to Manheim. He most recently served as chief operating officer and executive vice president of client operations for Teleperformance, where he managed 50,000 call center agents for clients in the high-tech, telecom, financial, and insurance industries, launched "Voice of Customer" analytics and improved customer satisfaction.

Ashish began his career at KPMG Consulting in customer relationship management (CRM), business strategy and process improvement. He also held management roles in customer experience/service, strategy, and operations at U.S. Cellular and Sprint. In addition, he served as vice president of customer service operations at Cbeyond, where he led the company's customer experience vision, strategy, and direction.

Ashish has lived and worked in the United States, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, UK, Brazil, and Zimbabwe, and has managed operations in the Philippines, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South Africa, among others. Ashish holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Delhi and an MBA from the University of Bombay.

Greg Easterly

President, Cox Digital Exchange

Greg Easterly is President of Cox Digital Exchange, whose mission is to provide open, digital markets where participants can buy and sell with people they trust, find new sources of inventory, and get to know new trading partners.

Easterly most recently served as vice president of Marketplace Management for Manheim Digital. The Manheim Digital team was responsible for providing Manheim customers and employees with mobile, wireless, and online tools to help them access what they needed more quickly and efficiently. Prior to that role, Easterly was vice president of Online Operations for Manheim. In that role, he managed operations of Manheim.com, OVE.com and Simulcast. As part of Manheim's online leadership team he was focused on product evolution, technology strategies, go-to-market execution, and organizational change management efforts.

Prior to Manheim, Easterly was with another Cox division, AutoTrader.com. Easterly's roles included managing relationships with advertising partners, management of AutoTrader.com's partnership with eBay, AutoTrader.com's auction-style products, implementation of market-based pricing for dealer advertising products, and management of dealer marketing strategy and execution.

Prior to joining AutoTrader.com, Easterly was a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later at the Raleigh News &Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Athens Banner-Herald in Athens, Georgia, before rejoining Cox in 1995 as a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas.

Easterly graduated from Emory University with a bachelor's degree in biology and he earned his MBA at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory.

Racquel White

VP Communications & Corporate Affairs

Racquel White is Vice President of Communications and Corporate Affairs. In her role, White leads efforts to amplify four strategic communications areas: internal, external, executive and corporate social responsibility.

White brings 15 years of strategic communication experience in a variety of sectors to Manheim. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Internal and Leadership Communications across North America for The Coca-Cola Company. As the Communications Director for The Coca-Cola Company Eurasia and Africa Group, White led the communications strategy across more than 90 markets, including the continent of Africa, Israel, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Russia and Turkey. White also served as Director of Shareowner Affairs, where she engaged with the Company's investor and shareowner base, as well as non-governmental organizations, U.S. and European investors and advocacy groups that influence and impact key business and corporate policy issues. Her experience has also covered a broad range of media relations, internal communications and functional operation management including global business planning.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, White worked at Marriott International with a focus on Global Internal Communications and Customer Communications for Marriott's global headquarters and its timeshare division, Marriott Vacation Club International. She also served as a communications professional for the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (a public policy think tank), and several communications and public relations agencies where she focused on annual reports, publications, press conferences, multi-lingual PR campaigns and other key communications initiatives.

White received her Master's Degree in Public Communications and Bachelor's Degree in Spanish and Latin American studies from The American University in Washington, D.C. An active member of the community, White has served on the Board of Directors for Georgia non-profits Camp Twin Lakes and Sheltering Arms, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Metro Atlanta Red Cross.

Tim Janego

Regional VP East Regional Operations

Tim Janego began his career in the auto auction industry in 1986 at Imperial Auto Auction in Lakeland, FL. He started as a manager trainee and worked into the position of operations manager. Tim was promoted to general manager of the location in 1991. Since that time, he has also held the position of general manager at Newburgh Auto Auction in Newburgh, NY, and Greater Tampa Bay Auto Auction in Tampa, FL.

In 2006, Tim was promoted to vice president of the Southeast region, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of 12 auctions across seven states. He assumed responsibility of seven additional auctions in Texas in 2009.

Tim's most recent role was announced in 2010. He is leading the markets and auctions in the eastern half of the country as Regional Vice President, Operations East.

Mike McKinney

Regional VP West Regional Operations

Mike McKinney is Regional Vice President, West Regional Operations. He is responsible for leading the operating locations in the markets located in the western half of the United States.

Most recently, he served as vice president of Account Management where he was responsible for focusing the dealer and commercial CRS account management efforts with the needs of all Manheim customers. Prior to that, he was vice president of Dealer Sales where he was instrumental in building and training a higher quality dealer sales force and worked with new technology initiatives for dealers. Mike helped Manheim enhance and expand its services for dealers nationwide.

McKinney joined Manheim in October 1993 as fleet/lease manager at Atlanta Auto Auction. He brought with him eight years of manufacturer experience. In August 1996, McKinney was promoted to assistant general manager of Kansas City Auto Auction, Kansas City, MO. He served in that position until being named general manager of Metro Detroit Auto Auction and Michigan Auto Auction in January 1999. In January 2003, McKinney was promoted to regional vice president of operations, Southwest, a position he held until being named vice president of Dealer Sales.

McKinney holds a bachelor of science degree in management from Central Michigan University.