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Summit IX : Preparing for a Restructured
Automotive Industry
Bel Air Partners Elite Dealer Summits are intentionally limited to a small group of the country’s leading dealers to encourage a frank exchange with our speakers and resources. Your active participation adds immeasurably to each session and helps us all learn even more. The agenda is filled with topical issues and is constructed to keep you informed about some of the most important issues affecting the future of our industry. Click here for other Elite Dealer events.
Wednesday — May 10, 2006
6:00 pm Wall
Street Meets the Automotive Community
Reception and dinner at Manhattan Motorcars Showroom, New York’s premier
Bentley, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini and Lotus Dealer, at 28th Street and 11th Avenue, New York City
Thursday — May 11, 2006
7:30 am
Registration / Breakfast
Le Parker Meridien Hotel, 118 W 57th Street
8:00 am Recent Transactions and Implications for the Future
Sheldon Sandler, Bel Air Partners
ARE
THE DETROIT THREE PROBLEMS SOLVABLE …
OR IS IT TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? Perspectives:
8:30
am Wall Street
Rob Hinchliffe, UBS Auto Analyst
9:15 am
Industry Observers
Moderator: Glenn Mercer, McKinsey & Company; Dave Power, JD Power and
Associates; Alex Taylor, Fortune
Magazine; Jerry Curry, Op-Ed Contributor to
Automotive News; Tom Walsh,
Detroit Free Press
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am Labor
Bob King, United Auto Workers
11:15 am
Private Auto Dealers
Jerry Pyle, Friedkin Companies; Herb Chambers, The Herb Chambers Companies;
Jack Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Automall
12:15 pm Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Trevor Finn, CEO, Pendragon Pendragon, headquartered in UK, is the largest publicly traded dealer group in Europe
1:45 pm
Public Auto Retailers
Walter
Czarnecki, United Auto Group
2:30 pm
Institutional Private Equity
Greg
Feldman, Wellspring Capital
3:30 pm Meeting Adjourns