Management and Directors

MANAGEMENT

Ernie Garcia, III
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Ernie Garcia, III co-founded Carvana and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in 2012. Mr. Garcia is also Chairman of the Carvana Co. Board. Prior to founding Carvana, Mr. Garcia held various roles at the DriveTime Automotive Group, Inc. from January 2007 to January 2013. From January 2007 to December 2008, he served as a financial strategist. He was a managing director of corporate finance from December 2008 to November 2009. From November 2009 until January 2013, he served as a Vice President and Treasurer and Director of Quantitative Analytics. As Director of Quantitative Analytics, Mr. Garcia was responsible for the firm’s ongoing development of consumer credit scoring models, and its utilization of those tools in retail vehicle sales deal structuring and vehicle price optimization. Prior to DriveTime, Mr. Garcia was an associate in the Principal Transactions Group at RBS Greenwich Capital from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on consumer credit based investments. Mr. Garcia holds a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Mark Jenkins
Chief Financial Officer

Mark Jenkins has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2014. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Jenkins was a professor in the finance department at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where his teaching and research focused on consumer and corporate credit markets from 2009 to 2014. While at Wharton, Mr. Jenkins was responsible for teaching courses in the undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs on corporate restructuring, corporate credit and leveraged finance. Prior to his time at Wharton, Mr. Jenkins worked at The Brattle Group from 2001 to 2004, an economic consulting firm, where he focused on corporate valuation and demand forecasting in technology markets. Mr. Jenkins received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and a B.S.E. from Duke University in Mathematics and Civil Engineering.

Benjamin Huston
Chief Operating Officer

Ben Huston co-founded Carvana and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since our inception in 2012. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Huston co-founded Looterang, a card-linking platform that enabled personalized deals to be automatically administered through consumer credit or debit cards, in 2011. Mr. Huston was chief executive officer of Looterang from 2011-2012. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Huston served as an associate at Latham and Watkins, a full service global law firm, where he focused on regulatory affairs. Mr. Huston holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University.

Ryan Keeton
Chief Brand Officer

Ryan Keeton co-founded Carvana and has served as our Chief Brand Officer since our inception in 2012. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Keeton was a principal at the Montero Group, a strategic consultancy firm, from 2010 to 2012, where he advised global public and private companies on strategic and business initiatives. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Keeton served as Director of Strategic Marketing for George P. Johnson, a global marketing agency. Mr. Keeton holds a B.A. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University.

Daniel Gill
Chief Product Officer

Daniel Gill has served as our Chief Product Officer since March 2015, overseeing all technology functions, as well as strategic partnerships for the business. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Gill spent his career in both enterprise software and consumer internet businesses. Mr. Gill served as Head of Strategy and Business Development for Inflection from May 2014 to March 2015. He co-founded and served as CEO of Huddler from 2007 until the company’s acquisition by Wikia in May of 2014. Mr. Gill holds a degree in Biology from Stanford University.

Paul Breaux
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Paul Breaux has served as our General Counsel since August 2015. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Breaux practiced law at the Houston, Texas office of the firm Andrews Kurth LLP (now Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP) from 2008 to 2015. While at Andrews Kurth, Mr. Breaux’s representative experience encompassed a broad range of general business transactions matters. Mr. Breaux holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Tom Taira
President, Special Projects

Tom Taira has served as President, Special Projects since October 2018. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Taira was the co-founder and CEO of Propel AI, which was acquired by Carvana in 2018. In 2005, Mr. Taira co-founded TrueCar, Inc. and from 2005 until 2018 he served in various roles at TrueCar, Inc. including Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and President. Between 2009 to 2010, Mr. Taira co-founded and served as CEO of Honk LLC, an automotive social media website, which was acquired by TrueCar. He has also been a Director and founding team member at various automotive startups, including Model E, a vehicle subscription service, and Build-to-Order, a new American automotive manufacturer. Mr. Taira began his automotive career at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. where he served as eBusiness Strategy Manager. Mr. Taira holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

Christina Keiser
Executive Vice President, Strategy

Christina Keiser joined Carvana in January 2016. She currently oversees company strategy, corporate affairs and Carvana’s ancillary products business. During her time at Carvana, Christina has also held leadership roles in strategic partnerships and expansion operations. Prior to joining Carvana, Christina served as Vice President of Talent for Benchmark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm in San Francisco. She started her career advising corporate clients on communications and investor relations with Sard Verbinnen & Co in New York City. Christina holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ernie Garcia, III
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Michael Maroone
Director

From July 2005 to April 2015, Mr. Maroone served on the board of AutoNation, Inc., an automotive retailer and provider of new and used vehicles and related services. From August 1999 until his retirement in February 2015, Mr. Maroone also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of AutoNation, Inc. Prior to joining AutoNation, Inc., Mr. Maroone was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Maroone Automotive Group, a privately-held automotive retail group, from 1977 to 1997. Mr. Maroone currently serves on three other boards: as chairman of the board of Cleveland Clinic Florida, a non-profit, multispecialty academic hospital; as a member of the board of the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Board; and as a member of the board of Salty Dot, Inc.. Mr. Maroone previously served on the board of Cox Automotive, Inc., a privately held combination of global automotive wholesale and services businesses including automotive auctions, financial services, media, and software; on the Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees; and was co-chairman of the Florida Leadership Board of the Cleveland Clinic. He holds a B.S. degree in Small Business Management from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Neha Parikh
Director

Neha Parikh is the Chief Executive Officer of Waze, where people and technology meet to solve transportation challenges. Waze is a platform that empowers communities to contribute road data, edit Waze maps and carpool to improve the way we move about the world. Previously, Neha served as the President of Hotwire, a leading innovator in value creation and discount travel and a member of the Expedia Group. She started with Expedia Group in 2008 with Hotels.com, where she amassed experience in roles across the business, including product development, marketing, pricing, and strategy. Prior to her role with Hotwire, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Brands and Retail for Hotels.com, driving marketing activities, overseeing the global P&L and operations, and leading merchandising, business development, and partner marketing globally. Before joining Hotels.com, Neha worked in consumer insight and demand strategy consulting with The Cambridge Group where she led projects across a variety of retailers, and at Dade Behring, Inc. (a Siemens healthcare company), where she held progressive levels of responsibility in marketing and product development. She also worked as a management consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP and gained multi-faceted expertise at an internet start-up in Chicago. Neha holds a bachelors of business degree from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ira Platt
Director

Since its inception in 2009, Mr. Platt has been the President of Georgiana Ventures, LLC, a firm that provides equity and debt capital to specialty finance companies, acquires portfolios of consumer finance receivables and offers consulting services to the specialty finance industry. From May 2009 to December 2013, Mr. Platt served as the President of 221 Capital Partners, LLC, a firm that provides advisory services. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Platt was the Portfolio Manager for the Rosemont TALF Opportunity Fund, a partnership investing in asset-backed securities. In addition, Mr. Platt was a Managing Director and Head of the Principal & Distressed Capital Business for RBS Greenwich Capital, the domestic fixed income banking unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, from 1997 to 2009. Mr. Platt was an Executive Vice President of the Aegis Consumer Funding Group, a publicly traded non-prime automotive finance company, from 1991 to 1997. Mr. Platt earned a B.A. degree in 1985 from Emory University and an M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Dan Quayle
Director

Dan Quayle has served on our Board since our IPO in 2017. Mr. Quayle has served the United States Federal Government in various capacities as a Congressman, Senator and as the 44th Vice President of the United States of America from 1989 to 1993. Since 1999, Mr. Quayle has been with Cerberus Capital, a New York private investment firm. He has served as Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments since 2001. Mr. Quayle earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from DePauw University and a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Mr. Quayle was selected to serve on our Board because of his experience as the Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments, LLC, as well as his extensive experience in the areas of government, foreign relations and private investment.

Greg Sullivan
Director

Mr. Sullivan is the Chief Executive Officer of AFAR Media, a travel media company he co-founded in 2007. From 1995 to 2007, Mr. Sullivan served DriveTime in various capacities, including as President from 1995 to 2004, Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2004, and Vice Chairman from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Sullivan earned a B.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.