With Keven Chartier taking on the role of director of financial services, the new director of remarketing for Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. will be Kevin Cullum.

 Cullum is currently the director of credit services.

Chartier’s move from remarketing to financial services and Cullum’s move into remarketing were just some of the changes revealed late last week in the senior leadership of Nissan’s financial arm.

Sharing more about his new position as director of financial services, officials noted that Chartier will report to Mike McConnell, vice president of sales, financial products and corporate planning office at NMAC.

Highlighting Chartier’s background with the company, he joined Nissan in 1984 as manager of district parts sales for Nissan North America.
Then, he took an executive position for banking solutions at RSA Solutions before returning to Nissan in 2006, the company explained.

Meanwhile, in his new role, Cullum will continue to report to Mark Kaczynski, president of NMAC.

The new director of remarketing joined the company in 2006 as senior manager in commercial relations and special lending.

And this isn’t the only OEM he has worked for. Before joining Nissan, Cullum worked for 17 years at Ford where his career progressed through a series of marketing assignments, the company highlighted. 

As Cullum moves on, the current director of NMAC sales Mary Lauwereins will take on the role of director of credit services. And in her new position, Lauwereins will report to McConnell.

The new director of credit services joined the company more than 20 years ago in 1990. During her time with the OEM, she “has held a series of positions of increasing responsibility in customer satisfaction, market support, dealer support, regional marketing, market representation and planning, distribution and vehicle operations,” officials noted.

Jim DeTrude, current director of Infiniti CMM, will succeed Lauwereins as director of NMAC sales. He will also report to McConnell.  DeTrude began his career with Nissan in 1987 and has worked in sales, market representation, dealer operations, advertising, marketing and model line. 

And wrapping up the changes in leadership at NMAC, the current director of financial products for NMAC James Morton will be taking on the position of general manager of sales finance for Nissan Motor Co. (NML).

He will report to Rakesh Kochhar, corporate vice president of treasury and sales finance at NML.

Morton joined Nissan in 2004 and in 2005 became general manager of finance in Nissan Europe. “He has held finance leadership positions in Canada and the U.S. and is currently responsible for creating innovative financial programs for NMAC that led to an increase in lease penetration rates and increased market share of the sales division,” officials noted.

All changes are effiective April 1.