EBBON Group has appointed Justine Hawkins as managing director of its new Ebbon Automotive business area.
Justine, who has been with the company for over 10 years, most recently as chief commercial officer, will be responsible for:
- the Leaselink e-procurement platform;
- the moDel new vehicle delivery system; and
- Stockviewer, a campaign management tool.
In addition she will have responsibility for expanding operations in the company’s European operations in in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy.
I am very lucky to be heading up such a dedicated and loyal team of talented people, and to have the chance to take the Automotive business to a new and exciting stage of its development.
We are growing the business at a time of great change within the industry, not just with our existing, long-established and market-leading core solutions that the fleet and leasing market knows so well, but in new areas, countries and customers, especially the vehicle manufacturers, along with new market channels - both B2B and B2C.
Ebbon Automotive is one of three recently created business divisons of Ebbon Group. The other two are:
- Ebbon Compliance – includes Derby-based Licence Check and DriverCheck in Glasgow
- Ebbon Intelligence – the Group’s research and development arm which uses AI technology
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