Alemdar Sönmez is Automechanika Istanbul’s show director at Deutsche Messe-Hannover Turkey. He has worked in the exhibition industry for 19 years, and particularly in the automotive sector. He has represented the interests of the Turkish automotive industry in more than 20 countries. He holds a UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry) exhibition management [...]

Eric has over 30 years of automotive aftersales experience with General Motors and has held numerous field technical, service development and management positions in several business segments in the USA.  He joined the technical training team in 2018 and serves as the technical training and technician environment manager for General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales.  [...]

Over the past 25 years Leanne has worked with stakeholders to collaborate and develop solutions to create a better, more sustainable future for the collision repair industry.    Today, as vice president, Assured Performance Network/Certified Collision Care, she is part of the management team responsible for North American operations of Assured Performance in the US and [...]

Tooraj is a mechanical engineer with 20+ years in origination, financing, and operation of $1B+ sustainability projects in automotive, mining and metals processing, and energy and resources management.  He is the co-owner of an international tier 1 supplier company producing metal automotive parts for global brands such as Peugeot and Renault. He is also the [...]

Rachel joined Ben in September 2018 and brings over 18 years of experience in the health and wellbeing field to the role.  Rachel has a significant track record as a subject matter expert in health, work and wellbeing, leading integrated programmes for large organisations including director for health and wellbeing at PeoplePlus and Ingeus where [...]