John Hammer is president of ADESA, a business unit of KAR Auction Services. In this role, he directs the development and implementation of ADESA’s overall strategy and growth objectives and oversees the company’s North American operations. He assumed this role in February 2018.

Hammer is an automotive industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in a variety of wholesale, retail and financing environments, as well as solid relationships throughout the industry.

Prior to being named president of ADESA, Hammer served as CEO of U.S. Auto Sales, Inc. He had previously spent seven years in senior leadership at Automotive Finance Corporation (AFC), another business unit of KAR Auction Services, as CEO, president and chief operating officer. Before joining AFC, Hammer spent 17 years in roles of increasing responsibility at several automotive and finance companies, including Ally Financial, AutoNation and Mercedes-Benz Financial.

Hammer holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in finance from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.

Vice President of Commercial Sales

As vice president of commercial sales, John Combs oversees commercial clients throughout the United States. With a diverse skill set of auction operations, including sales and management, he brings both strong leadership and significant insight to the ADESA sales team.

A long-time remarketing professional, Combs has 25 years of industry experience. His remarketing career began in 1991 as the reconditioning manager for ADESA Memphis; he was later promoted to fleet lease manager and arbitration manager. Since then, he has held several management positions such as fleet lease manager and general sales manager for Dealers Auction of Dallas, remarketing manager for Sunstar Acceptance Corp. and national auction remarketing manager for Bank One Credit Company. In 2000 he opened a greenfield site, ABC Indianapolis, as general manager. He returned to ADESA in 2006 to serve in key roles, including executive sales director and general manager of ADESA San Diego, before assuming his current position as vice president of commercial sales.

Combs holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington.

Mike Caggiano has served as ADESA’s executive vice president of U.S. operations, East region, since March 2013. In this position, he is responsible for leading the strategic development and primary business operations for the region.

Caggiano’s entry into the remarketing industry came in 1985 with a Massachusetts-based leasing company, where he eventually served as their general sales manager.

Caggiano joined ADESA Boston in 1996 as sales manager, where he was in charge of the auction’s dealer consignment sale. In 2000, he opened ADESA Concord, a greenfield site in Acton, Massachusetts, and served as the auction’s general manager. In 2007, he was promoted to regional vice president of ADESA’s Eastern region.

Caggiano is an active participant in the NAAA Membership Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire.

As vice president of the Central Region, Doug Shore is responsible for leading the strategic development and primary business operations for the region.

Shore has held a number of corporate and auction leadership roles within the company since joining ADESA in 1997 as an assistant controller. He served as controller at ADESA Indianapolis from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he was named assistant general manager of ADESA Indianapolis.

In 2000, Shore joined ADESA Toronto as general manager. In 2001, he was named director of acquisition and was again promoted in 2002 to vice president of operations. He served as regional business manager of ADESA’s East region and Midwest region before stepping into the role of regional vice president.

Shore holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Butler University in Indianapolis and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is active in NAAA, and also serves on the IARA Standards Committee.

Geoff Parker is vice president of U.S. auction operations for the Midwest region. In this position, he is responsible for leading the strategic development and primary business operations for the region.

Parker brings more than a decade of remarketing experience to his position, having started his ADESA career in 2003 as the national accounts manager for ADESA Dallas. He had previously been regional manager and technician at Dent Demon. He was promoted to fleet lease manager at ADESA Dallas in 2005 and to assistant general manager in 2007. In 2008, he was promoted to general manager at ADESA Cincinnati-Dayton.

Parker holds a bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College in Michigan.

As vice president of U.S. auction operations for the West region, Lawrence Cubitt is responsible for leading the strategic development and primary business operations for the region.

Cubitt started in the automotive remarketing industry in 1994, as regional remarketing manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In 1999, he joined the sales team at Flint Auto Auction. After serving in multiple departments and assisting in the launch of the detail/reconditioning shop, he was appointed general manager in 2005. Under his leadership, the auction earned numerous industry awards. Cubitt joined ADESA through the acquisition of Flint Auto Auction, now ADESA Flint, in 2016.

Cubitt received his bachelor’s degree from the University of South Dakota and his MBA from the University of Michigan–Flint.

As vice president of finance for ADESA, Scott Meyer directs all aspects of finance, accounting, budgeting and financial planning and analysis.

Meyer began his career with ADESA in 2003 as assistant controller for ADESA IMPACT. In 2004 he moved to the company’s corporate finance group, and then returned to ADESA in 2006 as controller. Meyer was promoted to vice president of finance in 2013.

Prior to joining ADESA, Meyer worked as an accountant and senior accountant at Deloitte & Touche from 1999 to 2003.

Meyer holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.

In his role as vice president of process excellence, Anil Nair is charged with enabling the capability, culture, and mindset within the organization to continually identify and reduce waste and variability from processes.

Nair has more than 15 years of progressive leadership and executive experience in operations management, business process improvement, and program management. He is skilled in Lean Six Sigma program development and deployment, new venture implementation, organizational change management and program governance for global operations.

Nair’s past positions have ranged from program manager of business excellence at a printing and business documentation solutions company to plant manager for an engineering construction company, from director of the enterprise continuous improvement group at United Airlines to director of purchasing and process excellence at an education corporation. Most recently he was the executive director of global lean, safety and corporate social responsibility for a wholesale technology distributor and global leader in IT supply chain and mobile device lifecycle services.

Nair holds a bachelor’s of technology degree in mechanical engineering from Calicut University in India, a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and an MBA from the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

As vice president of major dealer accounts, Scott Drehs is responsible for leading the team that develops relationships with our large-scale buyers and sellers. Scott leverages the capabilities, products and complementary services of all our business units for unparalleled solutions to our dealers’ individual needs through a suite of products and services.

Scott, a 30-year auto industry veteran, also works to generate new business opportunities and ventures to expand new and existing products and services for our major dealer customers. He works closely with other internal departments to successfully launch them.

Scott joined the automotive finance industry in 1989 and has extensive remarketing and finance experience. Prior to working at ADESA, Scott spent 15 years with AFC, including the past two and a half years as division vice president. Before that, he served as AFC’s VP of credit services for 12 years.

Prior to joining AFC, Scott was VP of franchise operations for Carmel, Indiana-based J.D. Byrider for three years and senior VP of operations for American Investment Bank in Indianapolis for six years.

Scott received a bachelor’s degree in public affairs from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.