FRANKLIN, Tenn. -

Hands-on training in the remarketing industry was on the agenda as members of continuing education program Auction Academy met for their latest session, held in Dallas.

Members of the Next Generation/Sons and Daughters Group, the Academy’s inaugural class, convened in August for a training session held in cooperation and conjunction with the International Automotive Remarketers Alliance, which had just concluded its Summer Roundtable.

Over the course of three days, the class toured America’s Auto Auction and the headquarters of Santander Consumer USA, and spent classroom time with industry experts who offered presentations covering asset management, vehicle certification, auctioneering and auction practices, sales strategy and economics.

“This session of Auction Academy was a tremendous opportunity for the Sons and Daughters Group,” said Richard Curtis, president of Auction Academy. “In addition to an in-depth look behind the scenes at a high volume-small footprint dealer consignment auction, thanks to America’s Auto Auction, the students spent invaluable time with experts who shared their insights into a number of different facets of the remarketing industry.”

The classroom sessions included discussions with Brent Huisman of Santander Consumer USA; Tom Kontos of ADESA; Ricky Beggs of Black Book; John Poteet of Louisiana’s 1st Choice Auto Auction; Rick Pomeroy of OVE.com; Mike Jones of Texas Auction Academy; Tom Toups of Honda Financial Services; and Scott Antinori of Liquid Motors. 

“The IARA’s participation in this class session was also a particular highlight for the Sons and Daughters Group,” said Curtis. “We appreciate Steven Houston and Rob Wagner providing a snap shot of the IARA’s CAR certification program, and the students particularly enjoyed the IARA Testing on the CAR modules proctored by Dave Sutton. It was a brilliant combination of instruction and hands-on training.”

Auction Academy’s final session of the year will be held in Detroit in early October, when both the Sons and Daughters Group and the Senior Managers Group will meet in joint session. 

This meeting will be sponsored by Flint Auto Auction, and will include a dinner at the Ford Rouge Plant hosted by United Road Services, and a technology class led by Keith Whann of Whann Technology Group.

Curtis noted that the Senior Managers Group will meet in Birmingham in spring 2014, and the academy’s first graduating class, the Sons and Daughters Group, will graduate at the CAR/IARA/NAAA conference in Las Vegas.

Registration will open soon for the third class group of Auction Academy, which will hold its first session in Nashville, Tenn., in mid-April. For more information, visit www.auctionacademy.net.

 

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