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Joe Hilger, Director, Alliance & Chrysler Group Dealer Development
Joe Hilger retired from a 33-year career with DaimlerChrysler, where he was Vice President of Global Service for the Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge brands. While at the Chrysler group, he focused on improving dealers′ retail business by advancing the call for increased customer satisfaction, service department productivity, vehicle and service quality, including dealer/ factory relations. Prior to becoming Vice President, Mr. Hilger held the position of Director of International Service and Parts and also served as Director of Sales and Marketing Training. Prior to that, he served as Director of MoparŪ Sales and Marketing where he protected and expanded the MoparŪ Parts and HemiŪ Engine brands. Mr. Hilger holds a BS degree in Automotive Technology.

Richard Sherman, Director, Alliance & GM Dealership Development
Richard Sherman brings 40 years of automotive industry experience to MPI; including 31 years with General Motors. At GM, Mr. Sherman held several senior management positions in sales, service and marketing. At Pontiac, he received an ASE certification and was recognized for creating GM′s "Mr. Goodwrench" dealer service program. He also developed AC Delco′s "Delco Tech" aftermarket service channel, and was subsequently elected to the Automotive News "All Star" industry award as "Service-Person-of-the-Year." Mr. Sherman has completed the GM Advanced Management program at Emory University; has a BS in Marketing from SIU and holds a Masters from Central Michigan.

Maureen Sullivan Martin, Director, Alliance & Ford Dealer Development
Maureen Sullivan Martin brings to MPi over 20 years of diverse experience in the automotive industry from the perspectives of the manufacturer, the supplier and the retail dealership. In Ms. Martin′s 11 years of management positions with Ford Motor Company, she developed competencies in the areas of retail development, marketing, sales, fixed operations, leadership and employee development. She is well known for automotive consulting and keynote speaking with her expertise in increasing profitability through improvements to customer satisfaction and dealership operations. Ms. Martin holds a BA degree in Business from Western Michigan University with a major in Marketing and minors in Computer Informational Systems and Business Management.

Susan Lovett, Director of Marketing
Susan Lovett has over 17 years experience as a marketing communications and business development professional; with over 11 years focused in the management consulting and automotive industries. Ms. Lovett managed a highly successful business development team for Deloitte Consulting LLP focusing on public sector business engagements. In this role, she contributed to the development and sales efforts of many high profile national RFP efforts, with strong emphasis in the State of California. Following her career with Deloitte, Ms. Lovett provided marketing communication efforts for an aftermarket start-up company, AUTOVIA. As the Marketing Director of MPi, Ms. Lovett oversees all marketing, communications, public relations and tradeshow activities for the company. She has been with MPi since 2004.

Brent Wolsey, Director of Customer Training
Brent Wolsey has been developing training programs and educating adults on software and technology since 1997. He has written numerous articles that have been published in trade magazines and has extensive experience designing classroom, computer and web-based curriculum. He spent time educating the US Department of Justice and the New York State Education Department, as well as numerous organizations and companies in the private sector. Mr. Wolsey joined MPi in 2004, where he has successfully built a training program for their customers. The training program includes a Power User Workshop, Computer and Web based Training programs and various onsite Training events.

Danen Lott, Manager of Network Installation Engineers
Danen Lott heads the Technical Field Services. He brings over 13 years of technical field service experience, 10 of these managing very diverse regional and national teams. He is a graduate of Utah State University with a degree in Business Administration.

LC Cunningham, Manager of Implementation
LC Cunningham joined MPi as our Implementation Manager. After a distinguished 15 years of Information Technology & Project management career in Aerospace, Manufacturing, Opto-electronics, and Banking Industries. She brings to MPi extensive experience in Project Management in implementing hardware solutions and software applications in complex technology initiatives. In addition to her experience with diversified technology industry backgrounds she leads a multi-talented team of MPi Project managers. Mrs. Cunningham holds a BS from California Poly technical University in Southern California in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration

Robert Garcia, Manager of Client Support
Robert Garcia has a deep background in designing and leading world class support organizations for both large, corporate environments and small start up organizations. Mr. Garcia's extensive experience includes consolidations and reorganizations of a large scale. As a Certified Benchmarking Specialist, he ensures that MPi's strategy and processes are always customer-centric. His success in realigning resources and strategies in such a way that best manage customer relations is consistent with MPi's mission to impact our clients' productivity, revenue, quality, and profitability. As a leader of both Customer Service and Technical Support, Mr. Garcia ensure that MPi customers have 24/7 access to mission-critical support, as well as expanded business hours support for all service, education, and technical support needs. Mr. Garcia and his team also manage customer communications and drive the development of new tools that improve the MPi customer's experience. He is a well regarded leader in the customer support industry and has served as Chapter President of the International Customer Service Association (ICSA), and National President of the Association of Call Center Managers (ACCM). His success in managing customer support has also earned him a best practices case study published by the ICSA. He has also been invited to and has spoken at industry conferences such as the Call Center Demo & Conference Series.