This industry expert credits 28 years of NAFA involvement with endless opportunities to improve and expand his career — including training, networking, certification, and more.
Pictured from left to right: Francois Piot, Director, International Business Office, Arval; Steve Hudson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Element Financial Corporation; Philippe Bismut, CEO, Arval; Philippe Noubel, Deputy CEO, Arval; Brad Nullmeyer, President, Element Financial Corporation; Bart Beckers, Chief Commercial Officer, Arval
The long standing 14 year partnership between Arval and PHH Arval, which was acquired by Element Financial Corporation in July of this year, recently was extended when representatives from both entities signed an enhanced strategic agreement to form the Element-Arval Global Alliance.
AmeriFleet was born from a desire to do vehicle transport with a keen focus on quality and customer service, and they're still striving to provide the best fleet vehicle transportation.
Curtis Lee never expected to have a career in parking. But after a stressful night circling the block around his favorite San Francisco restaurant for more than 30 minutes and finally finding a spot almost half a mile away where he had to endure the honking of impatient drivers as he parallel parked all the while living in fear of losing the dinner reservation that he had made two months in advance, he knew there had to be a better way.
When he and his wife finally sat down at their table at Nopa, he asked the waiter for a pen and on the back of a napkin sketched out the idea for Luxe Valet, a free app that offers on-demand valet parking and which officially launches today in San Francisco after six months in beta.
“Circling is not good for anybody,” says Mr. Lee, adding that in San Francisco it takes an average of 27 minutes to find parking. Find the wrong parking and you can join the 70,000 cars that were towed last year in San Francisco. So, 18 months ago Mr. Lee and his co-founder, Craig Martin, set out to make parking “a delight.”
Automakers are forming a consortium to deter hackers who might try to breach a vehicle’s security system -- an effort that has gotten the blessing of federal regulators.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers are helping to coordinate the effort, said David Strickland, the former director of NHTSA who now is a consultant for Venable LLP.
Automakers want to create secure firewalls for vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and also for vehicle data links to “the cloud.”