Grace Appleton of JMsolutions shares her incredible and meteoric rise to success as a woman working in the automotive industry.
Grace will both inspire and surprise you with her amazing story and
perhaps motivate you to investigate a career opportunity for yourself
in the automotive industry.
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Grace
Appleton is Director/General Manager, Wholesale Solutions at
JMsolutions. Grace is tasked with providing dealers with products,
services and training to increase their wholesale profitability. Her
goal is to help dealers become more efficient at buying and selling
their wholesale inventories through online auction venues and in the
physical auction lanes. AAX™ Run Lists – her first product to market –
integrates dealers’ AAX™ Buy Lists with vehicles in physical auction
Run Lists.
Prior to joining JMsolutions, Grace was employed by ADESA Auctions.
During her six years with the company, she held the positions of
Director National Sales and Director, North American eBusiness
Strategy. During her tenure in eBusiness, Grace led the ADESA eTeam
through its development and deployment of AutoIMS and was instrumental
in helping ADESA contract the TFS/LFS Dealer Direct upstream selling
system. Grace gained valuable customer experience as the ADESA national
account representative for companies such as Ford Motor Company,
Enterprise RAC, World Omni Financial Corp., Bank of America, ARI and
many other national clients.
Prior to joining ADESA Corporation, Grace was employed by ADESA Canada
as director of Internet Strategy. In this position, she oversaw the
development and creation of ADESA.CA, ADESA Canada’s informational
Website and DealerBlock.com ADESA Canada’s online auction.
Grace has over 20 years in the automotive industry. She has worked on
various sides of the business, including new and used car sales,
software and data sales and Finance and Insurance (F&I) management
through her employment with Ontario Chrysler, Canada’s largest Chrysler
dealer and the Canadian Black Book (CBB).
Grace and her family, originally from Toronto Canada, have recently
moved from Indianapolis to Boca Raton, Florida where they are enjoying
the fabulous weather and various recreational activities.
JMsolutions focuses on customer relationship management, dealer
desking, finance and insurance menus, new and used car inventory
management and reporting solutions. It also provides dealers with
related training and consulting services. JMsolutions serves over 2,000
dealership clients nationwide, including the nation’s top six dealer
groups. Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Fla., JMsolutions has major
operations in Dallas, Texas. http://www.jmfe-jmsolutions.com/
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