Mike Maroone

Michael E. Maroone serves as President, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of AutoNation, Inc., the largest automotive retailer in the United States.^[1]

At AutoNation, Maroone has overseen the development and implementation of the operating structure, market branding, common systems and processes in sales and service and e-Commerce. He has responsibility for all operations including sales, service, marketing, e-Commerce, corporate development, real estate, information technology, and industry relations.

Maroone is a second-generation auto dealer, who started out at his family's Ford dealership in upstate New York.^{[citation needed]} In 1977 he became General Manager of the first Maroone dealership in South Florida.^{[citation needed]} The Maroone Automotive Group would grow to nine dealerships before merging with AutoNation in 1997.^{[citation needed]}

Maroone serves as Co-chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Florida Leadership Board.^{[citation needed]} Florida Atlantic University named him "Entrepreneur of the Year", and in 2007 he was inducted into the "Entrepreneur Hall of Fame" at Nova Southeastern University.^[2] In 2009 he was named by Automotive News as one of the "fifty industry’s Visionary Dealers".^[3]

References

1. ^ "A conversation with AutoNation's president, Mike Maroone: auto retailing where "retail is detail".". Entrepreneur. 2003. http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/105440123.html. Retrieved 2010-11-09. 
2. ^ "Huizenga School Hosts Entrepreneur Hall of Fame 2007". Black Tie South Florida. 2007-04-18. http://www.blacktie-southflorida.com/photos/photoevent.cfm?id=100. Retrieved 2010-11-09. 
3. ^ "Jackson, Maroone: Innovative and influential". Automotive News. 2009-11-09. http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091109/RETAIL07/311099742/1398. Retrieved 2010-11-09. 

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