Auto Remarketing Podcast

We finish our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with a conversation featuring Black Book president Jared Kalfus.

Kalfus describes what it takes to be successful in sales and why face-to-face conversations are still vitally important nowadays.

In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing.

Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company that connects borrowers with lenders. Paxman recapped the current refinancing landscape and how lenders can identify potential customers who could benefit from a reconfigured auto loan.

Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA Northwest general manager Collin McConkey, sat down with Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby to discuss the power of independent auctions, the dynamics of a family-run business, collaboration with competitors and the origins of the group's annual Rock & Roll Sale.

In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective.

Vangellow, who also turns dealer feedback into practical tools that support day-to-day dealership management, explained the importance of solutions working together well. He also separated artificial intelligence products that can be helpful versus what’s just hype.

We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group's Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of in-person events, travel tips and more.

Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family's 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google before joining the family business. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Sporn talks about that experience and his work building software platforms to help dealerships with tasks like video messaging, claims management and more.

In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits speaks with Lainey Sibble and Eric Schwartz from Central Dispatch about the newest technology impacting vehicle transport: Secure Vehicle Transfer. Learn more about this impactful technology and how it's helping to solve a massive problem in transport—fraud during the vehicle handoff and release.

How does an event like Used Car Week come to life? What does this year's conference have in store? How is agenda planning like Tetris? We go behind the scenes at UCW 2026 and answer those questions with producers extraordinaire Amanda Dunlap, Cherokee Media Group's executive vice president of events, and Justine Mirsky-Blank, CMG director of event operations. Plus, these two die-hard hockey and baseball fans share their thoughts on all things Stanley Cup and MLB Playoffs.

Some of the best used-car inventory a dealer could want is sitting right in their own service lane every day.

In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, AutoHub general manager Dan Gaughan took dealers through a proven process of putting a sales presence in the service drive to ensure those vehicles make the transition to the front line smoothly.

The results can put dealerships in position for improved profitability and satisfied customers.

Our "PAL" Jeremy Louisos of Preowned Auto Logistics is back on the show for a wide-ranging conversation about his work on remarketing industry committees and conferences, top issues and hot topics in auto transport and much more. The interview is among our first recorded through a podcast studio and includes video. Stay tuned to Auto Remarketing's YouTube page for more: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoRemarketingPodcast.