J.D. Power has a new president and CEO.

The company announced Friday that it hired Joshua Peirez for the top leadership post and that Dave Habiger, who had held the role since 2018, will take on the vice chairman position.

Habiger will assist Peirez in the transition.

Peirez was most recently CEO and director at Sterling Check Corp., a provider of tech-enabled background and identity verification services.

While in that post, a position he held since 2018, he helped guide the company through its initial public offering in 2021 and its combination with First Advantage Corporation last year.

Peirez’s background includes time at Dun & Bradstreet as well as MasterCard.

“I am enormously proud of the trajectory we are on and am excited for Josh to lead the company in its next phase of growth,” Habiger said in a news release.

“We recognized early on that robust, trusted data and proven insights would be the key for our customers to unlock value from J.D. Power’s predictive analytics and AI-powered solutions,” he said. “We’ve never been better positioned to capitalize on our industry leadership, with Josh having the ideal background to drive continued growth.”

Peirez added: “J.D. Power is a world-renowned brand that has developed some of the most powerful datasets, analytics capabilities and software solutions used in the automotive industry today. The company also has deep industry intelligence and a team of experts who understand the intricacies of the key industries in the automotive ecosystem. I look forward to building on the amazing company Dave and his team have developed to fuel its continued expansion and deepen its value to our customer base.”