- Pictured left to right: David Kateley and Dale Wyatt
LONG-SERVING Director of Suzuki, Dale Wyatt, is taking early retirement, effective March 2025.
After 17 years leading the Japanese brand, Dale says the time is right for him to personally step down from his role to further concentrate on his health and wellbeing, pursue his passions, and look to provide advisory roles in the automotive sector.
“Dale Wyatt has been hugely instrumental in leading our brands progress and success in the UK and Republic of Ireland. To say he has made an outstanding contribution to the company during this time is a major understatement and on behalf of Suzuki I would like to sincerely thank him. From next March, Dale will be very much missed by our employees, dealer network, customers as well as the automotive media”.
Dale will continue to direct the Automobile Division until January when his successor David Kateley starts. David, who has been with the brand for 20 years, currently leads the Automobile Sales Operations division and has worked alongside Dale since 2014.
David Kateley first joined the company in 2003 in a business development role with Suzuki Financial Services and then moved to a Regional Sales Manager position for the South of England in 2007 before promotion to his current role as General Manager in 2014. During the 2014 – 2024 period David‘s responsibilities and remit have expanded considerably enabling him to have a broad understanding and appreciation of all of the Automobile Division business functions.
Dale Wyatt comments:
“It is never easy to step back from a job and company that you love. I have had a wonderful career at Suzuki, and I will be enthusiastically leading the automobile division until the end of this year. I am equally enthusiastic about supporting David Kateley in quarter 1 2025 as he picks up the reins from January 2025.”
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