Chip Perry

Chip Perry
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Virginia, Harvard Business School
Occupation President and chief executive officer of TrueCar, Inc.
Known for Online auto retail entrepreneurship

Chip Perry is president and chief executive officer of TrueCar, a Santa Monica-based automotive pricing and information website.[1]

Prior to TrueCar, Perry started working with AutoTrader.com as its first employee in 1997 and was CEO until 2013. In that time, AutoTrader became the largest third-party vehicle shopping website, with over $1.5 billion in annual revenue.[2] As CEO, Perry oversaw a series of acquisitions at AutoTrader, including Kelley Blue Book, VinSolutions, vAuto and HomeNet Automotive, companies that are now part of the Cox Automotive group. Before joining AutoTrader, Perry worked in Los Angeles for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and at the business development arm of the Los Angeles Times. After leaving AutoTrader in 2013, Perry was President and CEO of RentPath.[3]

Education

Perry has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

References

  1. ↑ "Chip Perry CrunchBase Profile".
  2. ↑ Jeff Bennett (2015-11-23). "TrueCar Names Chip Perry as Its New CEO". Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ David Undercoffler (2015-11-23). "Chip Perry, TrueCar's new CEO, seeks to rebuild dealers' trust". Automotive News.
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