Jason is the IBIS CEO. His vision and mission are to grow the IBIS brand globally and continue to expand IBIS as the leading thought-leadership organisation for the worldwide collision repair market. He also takes a very active role in many of the IBIS conferences as conference director. Previously, Jason was a board director at [...]

Les had 18 years’ experience in the automotive repair industry when in October 1993 he took up his first consulting engineering assessing role in an independent practice, which gave him  a very challenging and varied baptism into the world of engineering assessing. In November 1998, Les took up the role of staff motor engineer for [...]

Having joined the company in 2005, Eric is now president of GiPA Group, a market intelligence organisation that specialises in the automotive sector. The company operates widely across Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Eric is a well-known expert in vehicle utilisation and maintenance, driver behaviour, mobility, market share and market potential. Eric has spent his [...]

Michelle Sullivan is the Strategic Sales Manager for AkzoNobel where she leads the teams of key account managers and strategic sales hunters for North America. Prior to joining AkzoNobel, a majority of her 25 years of collision repair industry experience was focused on leading sales and operational teams, primarily in the distribution segment. Her expertise [...]

Paul’s love for automotive started when his dad bought a 1968 Ford Thunderbird so they could work on it and restore it. This was when Paul was at high school where he took automotive classes to learn how to work on cars and complete their project. While in high school he got a job as [...]