Artificial intelligence helps individuals and businesses in many ways nowadays. Can AI help to sharpen the repossession process, too? Geoff Weathersby thinks so. The chief operating officer of SVR Tracking explained how on the Live Stage presented by SYNC Auto Logistics during Used Car Week 2025. Weathersby’s conference conversation with Cherokee Media Group’s Nick Zulovich is now available through this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

Some folks might consider title work the most boring part of automotive. Well, on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics at Used Car Week 2025, Vitu vice president of national sales Dave Spencer explained how exciting — and important — title work can be, especially as the critical car document continues to enter the digital world. Spencer’s conference conversation with Cherokee Media Group’s Nick Zulovich is now available through this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, a lively discussion about keys for repossessed vehicles included: —Matthew Yoo of Paramount Recovery Service —John Messiah of Bridgecrest —Dave Johns of Done Rite Recovery —Ryan Medina of MVTRAC | SCM —Pamela Bishop of RunBuggy —Wayne Ray of Romans Adjusters

Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox of TransUnion and Kevin Roberts of CarGurus that are now available through this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to turn today's challenges into tomorrow's advantage.

In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent in the dealership industry. Drawing on insights from CDK’s Dealership Workplace Study, the conversation dives into practical tactics to reduce turnover, foster workplace culture, and ensure that “people taking care of people” remains at the heart of dealership success.

As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ongoing evolution of credit scores during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc also revisited a project conducted earlier this year with Cox Automotive that examined the dynamics of changing scores amid student loans and delinquency, as well as how much more cognizant consumers are about their credit status.

Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees is a conversation with Jerry Kroshus, who is CEO of Location Services. Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits talks with Kroshus about his career journey in the auto finance, collections/recoveries and remarketing industries. Plus, they chat about Kroshus' time playing football at North Dakota State, where he and his Bison teammates won three national championships, and much more.

Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator of the Women in Remarketing panel at Used Car Week, and in her conversation with Auto Remarketing senior editor Joe Overby, she talks about her preparation for that panel, how to get the most out of attending conferences and the keys to her success in the auto industry.

In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bill Zadeits joins with Elizabeth Stegall of Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and ICO, and Bethany Johnson from vAuto to preview their Used Car Week workshop. Listen now and you'll get an early preview of their workshop: A 5-Point Plan to Optimize Used Vehicle Profitability.

Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for Allied Solutions remains a friendly and knowledgeable executive at industry events, including Used Car Week. One of this year’s inductees to the Used Car Week Hall of Fame, Igo reflects on her successful career and proven strategies to make the most of in-person industry events.

This sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features two experts from Central Dispatch who offer valuable guidance for choosing a transportation partner. Shanna Wise, who oversees business strategy execution, and Blake Bentley, who leads enterprise client account success, take listeners through the importance of licensing and insurance, handling delays because of weather and other circumstances, and protecting vehicles during transportation.

The auto auction industry has seen a spike in M&A over the last three years, similar to the consolidation in auto retail that has been going on much longer. And our guest today has experience with both. George Pero is president and CEO of Mach10 Automotive, an M&A firm specializing in auto retail. His 34 years of auto industry experience includes founding, operating and successfully selling Auctions in Motion to what is now known as America’s Group Pero joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to share his perspective on M&A activity in auto retail, auto auctions and where the two might overlap.

While the year-over-year figure reflects broader market volatility, Matthew Babcock, who oversees digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, explained the strong quarter-over-quarter increase of the Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index signals market re-engagement. Babcock elaborated about these points and more during an episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

We throw the keys to the valet on this episode. Clint Curtis is the co-founder and CEO of Zapmoto, which provides valet pickup and delivery of vehicles for servicing at car dealerships. He joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a conversation about the growth of mobile/remote service offerings in auto retail, the origin story of Zapmoto and how its delivery process works, inspiration from service providers like DoorDash and Carvana, plus much more.

Managing delinquencies and repossessions might be as complicated as anything auto lenders do nowadays. To help finance companies of sizes handle those complexities, this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features Anne Holtzman, who is senior vice president of client experience and risk management services at Allied Solutions. Holtzman gave an update on the current landscape, ways lenders can get better results faster when recovering and remarketing collateral, along with more guidance about the repossession process and optimizing returns.

Lauren joined PureCars in 2015 as a sales associate, later serving as regional manager, national director and senior vice president before moving up to chief operating officer in January 2023. She was promoted to the new role of president in February 2024. And last month, Donalson became the company’s CEO. She joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to talk about her journey with PureCars, her goals for the company and advice she has for early-career executives looking to take a similar career path.

CarMax chief marketing officer Sarah Lane joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to talk about the company's new “Wanna Drive?” branding, its omni-channel buying and selling experience, putting the customer in control and how CarMax sets itself apart in an era of new car-buying models, technology and changing means of vehicle ownership and usage. Plus, Lane discusses CarMax's first foray into women's professional sports with its WNBA partnership, how automotive advertising has changed in the last 20 years and how CarMax went from "challenger" to "leader" in the used-car market.

Many dealers likely cheered when the CARS Rule from the Federal Trade Commission was vacated by a federal court at the beginning of the year. But long-time Arizona independent dealer Ace Christian believed it wouldn’t be long before similar regulations arrived on the state level. And it’s happened already in California. Christian, who is also CEO of Secure Close, a technology company formed back in 2014 to solve the problem of human error at the time of vehicle delivery, discussed what’s been happening for this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast.

David Prusinski is now the co-CEO of Vehicle Management Systems (VMS), which previously operated as EVAI. Prusinski shared about how the company arrived at its new brand and what might be ahead for the provider of data analytics and artificial intelligence-driven fleet management technology.