Our Authors

Adam Kimber is the Publisher for AE and P&A Magazines. He has extensive publishing, sales and marketing, and trade show management experience.

Adam Ouart brings more than 22 years of automotive industry experience to his position as the vice president of Agency Services at EFG Companies. In this role, Adam is responsible for dealer development through a distribution network of top-tier agents. Prior to his current role, Adam held an account executive position at EFG for 12 years, where he enabled clients to enhance their income opportunities with product development, reinsurance, ongoing training, recruiting and marketing, and compliance support. Prior to EFG, Adam worked his way up the dealership career path, starting as a porter for Buz Post Pontiac GMC Isuzu Kia in 1995, and ending with Ewing Auto Group as a Finance Director. Adam is AFIP Certified.

Andrew Weill Esq. is a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Weill & Mazer APC.

Eric Fifield Vice President, Agency Services, EFG CompaniesEric Fifield brings over 20 years of automotive industry experience to EFG Companies. As the vice president of the company’s Agency Services division, he is responsible for dealer development through a distribution network of top-tier agents. Prior to EFG, Eric served as the regional sales manager and vice president of sales for Great American Insurance. His career began 20 years ago with the Penske Corporation as an ASE Certified Technician, where he worked in many capacities including the director of training. Eric’s clients have included organizations such as AutoNation, Ford Motor Company, Honda Motor Company, Chicago Automobile Trade Association, and hundreds of agents and dealers across the country. Bill Gusa Olympic Dealer MarketingBill Gusa and his partners founded Olympic Dealer Marketing Services to look ahead of the curve and insulate dealerships from market changes while enabling them to capitalize on new opportunities. Drawing on his management career in the retail automotive space, Bill cultivates relationships based on trust and the ability to generate mutual success. Under Bill’s direction, Olympic Dealer Marketing Services brings a team approach to assembling relevant product portfolios, conducting methodical training that impacts dealers’ ability to increase finance revenue, and providing insight into overall business performance with ongoing service and reporting.  He and his team focus on driving the greatest success possible for over 100 dealerships.

Bill Kelly is a partner at Automotive Development Group LLC out of Minnesota and has experience offering maintenance programs and building custom programs for his dealer clients.

Bob Harkins’ background in the automotive industry includes consumer finance, sales and F&I management. He once served as vice president and director of training for an international credit insurance and vehicle service contract administrator and also has worked with Northwood University, NADA’s Dealer Candidate Academy, NCM Associates Inc., manufacturers’ dealer development programs, state dealer associations and AFIP. Harkins designs and presents Finance and Insurance, Compliance and Ethics seminars and workshops for dealerships, dealer groups, administrators and general agents.

Brian T. Casey is a partner in the Atlanta office of Locke Lord LLP. As co-leader of Locke Lord’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Corporate, Capital Markets and Health Care Practice Groups, Mr. Casey focuses on (i) corporate, (ii) merger & acquisition, corporate and structured finance and other transactional, (iii) multi-state regulatory and (iv) tax matters for corporate clients in the insurance, financial services and health care industries. His clients include insurance companies, insurance holding companies, managing general agents and insurance agencies, third party and claims administrators, banks and other financial institutions, investment banks and reinsurance companies as well as service contract providers and administrators and insurers that issue contractual liability insurance policies.

Brian Feldman is Executive Vice President of Spencer Re, the first international reinsurance company formed in Puerto Rico. Brian has over 20 years of experience working in the F&I space. Prior to joining Spencer Re, Brian held the role of National Sales Leader responsible for Allstate Dealer Service strategic and affinity F&I relationships which included automotive manufactures and their finance captives, large dealer groups and affinity relationships

Brian Reed founded F&I Express® in 2008. As President and CEO, Brian leads the F&I Express team in its quest to provide world-class technology to support the electronic processing and eCommerce of the automotive industry. Prior to F&I Express, Brian served as CEO of online auto financing company, giggo.com. From its inception as a new subsidiary of Daimler Chrysler to its merger with competitor, PeopleFirst, he then assumed the role of President. Brian later structured a successful exit for all parties through the sale of PeopleFirst to Capital One for $178 million. Brian became Managing Vice President of Direct Internet Lending for Capital One Auto Finance where he continued to creatively develop and substantially expand the business. In November of 2005, J.D. Power and Associates honored Brian as a Pioneer of the Automotive Internet Industry for contributing to the establishment and growth of the automotive Internet. He has also led the development and filing of 15 patents.