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Dan Najour appointed to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Global Vehicles - 2009-12-16
MahindraNA.com
ALPHARETTA, GA – Global Vehicles has named Dan T. Najour, a veteran of more
than 30 years of automotive senior management to be its new executive vice president of sales
and marketing. Working from the company’s headquarters here, Najour will oversee a field sales
organization servicing more than 349 dealers and oversee the work of the marketing department.
According to GV CEO John Perez, “Dan’s retail background is perfect for Global
Vehicles because we are a distributor, not an auto manufacturer. Our job is working with our
dealer organization to sell Mahindra pickup trucks and Dan’s experience makes him the right
guy to get this job done.”
Beginning in spring 2010, Global Vehicles will market two- and four-door clean-dieselpowered
pickup trucks, in both two-wheel and four-wheel-drive versions, produced by Mahindra
& Mahindra, India’s largest utility-vehicle producer. These trucks, exclusively imported by
Global Vehicles, are compact in size with the payload and towing capacity of full-size pickups,
but the fuel economy of a small automobile. A diesel-powered SUV, with similar characteristics,
will follow about a year after the pickup’s launch.
Najour, 50, has been involved in selling cars and trucks since 1978. He started his career
in one of Mr. Perez’s dealerships where he quickly moved from the sales floor to general
manager.
After Mr. Perez sold his holdings, Najour spent the next two decades in senior
management with AutoNation and Group 1 Automotive Inc. In addition, he twice won Ford’s
President’s Award for customer satisfaction.
“Selling cars and trucks is what I know best,” said Najour. “I plan to bring my knowledge
and experience to help our dealers during these difficult times for the auto business.”
Najour lives with his wife Laura and daughter in Roswell, Ga.
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