Kristen Judd

Head of OEM Partnerships & SaaS Strategy at DAS Technology

More than a decade ago, Kristen Judd co-founded 3 Birds Marketing, the company that pioneered the concept of online presence monitoring and management for the automotive industry with the first-of-its-kind Dealer Digital Evaluation® program and has continued to innovate in this space helping thousands of dealerships improve the digital CX being provided to consumers researching where to purchase or service a vehicle.

Lane Crider

Executive Manager at Regal Nissan

An EV Pioneer, a trusted authority in EV retail landscape, and most of all – popularly known as the BEST EV RETAILER on this planet.

Aditya Jairaj

Deputy Managing Director & India Jeep Brand Head at Stellantis India

As Deputy Managing Director for Stellantis in India, Aditya Jairaj holds the responsibility for the group’s National Sales Companies (NSCs), manufacturing operations coupled with the full responsibility of leading Jeep brand operations in the country.

Prior to joining Stellantis, he served as the Head, EV Strategy and Transformation for Nissan and was named Automotive News - Rising Star ’22 in North America.

Aditya has a strong and diverse experience in international automotive & consulting businesses having spent the last 17 years working across multiple geographies including the US, Japan, South Africa, Indonesia, and India.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University; a master’s degree in engineering business management from the University of Warwick; and an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.

Bob Lanham

Senior Vice President Retail Development at CarNow

Bob Lanham is currently Senior Vice President at CarNow, responsible for supporting sales, product development and marketing operations. He is an experienced technology professional who has served in key marketing and sales roles at leading brands such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Hulu, Shazam and Meta. He will play a critical role in ensuring CarNow’s enablement of the success of its customers and partners by expanding its collaboration with its more than 25 OEM partners.

Bob Lanham has more than two decades of technology and leadership experience. As the Head of Automotive Retail at Meta, Lanham developed the company’s automotive retail narrative and strategy, writing its first-ever “Automotive Playbook for Dealers” that is used daily by automotive professionals around the world. Lanham has spoken at more than 500 industry, OEM and dealer events globally. He began his career selling automobiles, working in the F&I office, and serving as an internet manager at Toyota of Sarasota. Lanham earned a Bachelor of Science from Elon University.

Michael Filazzola

Managing Director at Stellantis Australia

Michael Filazzola, Managing Director, Stellantis Australia was appointed in February 2023 to lead the Australian arm of Stellantis that includes Jeep, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Fiat Professional and Abarth. Filazzola leads a team of 100 across Australia.

Filazzola has extensive international experience in the automotive and aftermarket industry, having worked for more than 28 years across regions of China, Southeast Asia and Australia.

He began his career at Holden and over ten years grew his experience working across engineering and supply chain. Michael then moved to General Motors, and while there held a variety of senior executive roles across sales, aftersales, customer experience, purchasing and supply chain and product development.

Prior to joining Stellantis, Filazzola was the general manager for product development at Bapcor, overseeing the growth of private brands within the aftermarket industry in Australia.

Mike Grandinetti

Faculty at Harvard Marketing Entrepreneurship Innovation & Creativity

Mike Grandinetti has been continuously active in the fields of corporate innovation, tech entrepreneurship & product design. A former Silicon Valley engineer & McKinsey strategy consultant, he's best known as a successful serial tech entrepreneur, startup mentor, multi-award-winning professor & innovation consultant to senior executives of major global companies.

He was an early, pre-product team member & / or co-founder & CXO of 8 VC-backed enterprise tech startups. In this capacity, he was a consistent early adopter in harnessing advanced technology, including AI, to optimize sales and marketing performance. He's currently on the faculty of Harvard and Brown. He’s won numerous Professor of the Year & Global Teaching awards, & was named Financial Times global Professor of the Week.

Varun Shah

Co-founder & CEO of Eccentric

Having started up Eccentric at the age of 23, Varun has grown it into a global corporation and a driving force in the Automotive Retail space. With offices in California and Mumbai, Eccentric has created foundational technology that allows OEMs & Dealers to democratise 3D visualisation and provide an unrestricted visualisation of their products.

While he is not building Eccentric, Varun goes for long runs & enjoys reading, accompanied by good coffee.

Brian Pasch

Founder of PCG Companies and Brian Pasch Enterprises

Brian Pasch is the Founder of the Pasch Group which has multiple business units which serve the automotive retail industry. Over the past 18 years, Brian has written nine books on automotive marketing and sales process. He has helped countless dealers and OEMs adapt to the changing retail environment with consulting, workshop, and conference presentations. Currently Brian is focused on helping dealer groups manage their first-party data using Customer Data Platform (CDP) technologies and the new GA4 framework.

David O'Brien

Co-Founder & CEO at Quantum5

David serves as CEO & Co-Founder at Quantum5 working with a team of "who's who" in both automotive retail and automotive SaaS. David is a four time speaker for the NADA Convention on topics from Employee Retention, Leadership Secrets for Managers and Transforming Dealership Training. David has developed training programs for global OEM’s, public dealership groups and dealers from the US, Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore. David is also a recognized leader in the transformative data around human behavior through his work with Predictive Index. David’s focus is on helping the great teams in the global automotive industry reach higher levels of employee satisfaction which will lead to wildly successful customer experiences and retention. David and his team at Quantum5 provide solutions that are measurably changing automotive.