Charles Oglesby to take over as new CEO: the risks increase, but in which direction? I think you have as much risk things get better under new leadership than get worse. Humility will be the key for Mr. Oglesby. (02/15/07) - Auto Retail Informer

Charles Oglesby to take over as new CEO: the risks increase, but in which direction? I think you have as much risk things get better under new leadership than get worse. Humility will be the key for Mr. Oglesby. (02/15/07)

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Charles Oglesby, who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in September, is now going to be the new CEO. Mr. Gilman said that Charles was his first hire when he came on board, and that he has been working closely (“mentoring”) him over the last nine months. Now when Charles Oglesby was first promoted up, in my September 8, 2007 edition of the Auto Retail Informer I said:

“We’ve never met him, but it looks like a good move to put in a real dealer operator in the COO slot. This proved highly effective at AutoNation, where the company had an auto exec at the top balancing off an engineer (systems and process focused) CFO with a people (a dealers dealer) COO. Gordon Smith co ...

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