Laurie Halter is the founder of Charisma! Communications, a successful automotive PR firm, and host of the Carearing podcast where she explores work/life balance issues for leading females. She has a passion for business and entrepreneurship, but what really gets her jumping out of bed in the morning is sharing her experience balancing life, work, and motherhood.

Erich K. Gail is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cardinale-Group of Companies. Erich is a 30-year veteran of the global automotive industry having served in a variety of executive and senior leadership roles within a vast array of management and investment groups. He has extensive experience developing new business operations as well as enhancing the performance of mature organizations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Korea, and Japan.

Maureen Bailey was recently promoted from General Sales Manager to Assistant General Manager at Subaru of Moon Township. Previously, she held executive and senior leadership positions at Autosoft, Inc. and Cochran Automotive Group. At Cochran, Maureen led the landmark opening of the company’s first BDC and developed and implemented an enterprise-wide Corporate Sales Transparency process, while serving as Director of Process Development. Before her tenure at Cochran, Maureen served as Sales Manager and F&I Manager for multiple dealerships. 

Melanie Borden has spent the majority of her 14+ year marketing career in the automotive tech industry. Melanie has worked in various atmospheres from social media startups to a public tech company in consulting, marketing, and business development roles. Presently, she is the VP of marketing for Tom Maoli’s Celebrity Motor Cars auto group where she develops and implements all facets of the marketing strategy and built the in-house advertising agency.