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iVendi establishes business units and appoints<br />
country directors in France and Spain<br />
Motor retail technology expert iVendi has created<br />
newly-established business units and made major new<br />
appointments in France and Spain.<br />
Alvaro Montero<br />
Nicolas Lacker-Stuhl has become country<br />
director in France. He has held the same<br />
role in France and Benelux for ViveLaCar,<br />
been a car subscription expert for NLS<br />
Consulting, and also held a variety of<br />
roles for BMW Group, including business<br />
development manager for Asia Pacific and<br />
Africa.<br />
Alvaro Montero becomes country<br />
director in Spain. His previous experience<br />
includes being country manager for<br />
Modix International, marketing manager<br />
at PagaTodo, CEO and partner at<br />
NiquelChrome Digital Marketing and MBA<br />
professor at IE Business School in Madrid.<br />
Darren Sinclair, CCO at iVendi, said:<br />
“Establishing these business units and<br />
appointing country directors in France and<br />
Spain are important staging posts in our<br />
international expansion plans.<br />
“Nicolas and Alvaro are both highly<br />
capable and experienced, and will enable<br />
us to support our partners and clients<br />
using their extensive knowledge of<br />
automotive retail and finance, as well as<br />
Nicolas Lacker-Stuhl<br />
promoting our market-leading technology<br />
and digital solutions.<br />
“Motor manufacturers, lenders, digital<br />
marketplaces and dealers are all keen to<br />
put in place connected retail solutions to<br />
meet changing consumer demands and<br />
iVendi is in a strong position to support<br />
and deliver their ambitions and consumer<br />
expectations.”<br />
New appointment: Motul UK -<br />
Has Tahier, Technical Specialist<br />
Motul is delighted to announce the appointment of Hasanaat Tahier, who<br />
takes up the role as Motul UK Technical Specialist, with immediate effect.<br />
This is the latest move in Motul’s<br />
strengthening of its dedicated British<br />
business - Motul UK - as the global<br />
lubricant force expands its operations<br />
in what is one of its key development<br />
markets. “Has”, as he is generally<br />
known, will henceforward head up<br />
Motul’s technical function and all<br />
related aspects in the UK and Ireland.<br />
Has brings with him experience of<br />
a number of different aspects of the<br />
automotive mix.<br />
Graduating from the University of<br />
Bradford, with First-Class Honours<br />
in Mechanical and Automotive<br />
Engineering he worked as a Design<br />
Engineer, before moving into the<br />
automotive sector as a Production<br />
Engineer with the JTEKT Group’s Koyo<br />
Bearings brand, where his assignments<br />
included projects for Jaguar, BMW and<br />
Electric Motor Specialists, YASA .<br />
Has then moved to Total Energies as<br />
a Product Engineer, working on various<br />
aspects of the business, including their<br />
in-house systems, digital tools and<br />
automotive troubleshooting.<br />
“We are extremely pleased to<br />
welcome Has on board at Motul UK,”<br />
enthuses Callum Goodland, Motul UK<br />
Country Manager. “He adds another<br />
key string to our bow and has joined<br />
Motul at a very exciting time, as we<br />
develop our UK and Irish business.<br />
Has’s appointment is a measure of<br />
how fast things are moving at Motul<br />
at the moment and we look forward<br />
very much to him being part of our<br />
expanding team here at Motul UK.”<br />
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