Mota Advisory Board Members

Mota has assembled a world class team of advisors from the key sectors of the automotive and technology industries.

Jim Davis
Mr. Davis is an e-business veteran and entrepreneur with a proven track record building and managing large-scale, branded e-commerce businesses. Currently, Mr. Davis is actively advising start-ups and early stage companies.

A former VP Marketing and New Business Development for eBay, Jim led the company's marketing initiatives and helped expand the company's e-commerce business beyond collectibles and flea market items. During his tenure, eBay grew from 8 million to 64 million registered users and increased total revenues from $200 million to almost $1.1 billion.

Prior to eBay, Mr. Davis started and sold two different consumer-driven Internet businesses. First, he co-founded and launched "Total New York", the leading online city website during its tenure, which was sold to AOL's Digital City group in 1997. Next, Mr. Davis co-founded "Chic Simple", the first fully integrated e-commerce, marketing and merchandising company online for women. The business was sold to private investors in 1999.

Mr. Davis holds a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.

Stuart Angert
Mr. Angert is an automotive industry leader and innovator with broad experience developing and operating companies in the auto and auto-aftermarket categories. As co-founder and former President and CEO of Remarketing Services of America, Inc. (RSA), Mr. Angert managed the sale of over 300,000 vehicles and $3.2 billion in annual transactions. RSA is the nation’s largest independent provider of vehicle remarketing, lease maturity management and customer retention services to the automotive finance industry.

Prior to the formation of RSA in 1991, Stuart established the largest automotive parts retail and wholesale operation network in upstate New York. Subsequent to the sale of Angert Auto Parts, Inc. he served as Vice President of Marketing for Marine Midland Automotive Financial Corp. (now HSBC), promoting the growth of Marine's automotive portfolio to become the largest non-captive lease and loan portfolio in the nation.

He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business.

Mark Hughes
Mr. Hughes is a noted marketer and "market evangelist" who is an expert at growing consumer e-commerce businesses through non-traditional marketing techniques. He is currently the CEO of Buzzmarketing, an online marketing and branding agency which espouses the "out-think vs. out-spend" philosophy that Mark applied so successfully to his own businesses.

Prior to founding Buzzmarketing, Mark was Vice President of Marketing for eBay's Half.com division (the #1 Internet retailer of used books, music and movies). Hughes literally put Half.com on the map by convincing Halfway, Oregon to rename itself to Half.com. A move still heralded as one the biggest publicity coups ever, and which shortly preceded the sale to eBay for over $300 million. Hughes grew Half.com from zero to 8 million registered users in less than three years. Hughes brings a wealth of creative and quantitative experience in consumer marketing from PepsiCo's Pizza Hut Division, Pep Boys and American Mobile Satellite.

Mr. Hughes holds his MBA from Columbia Business School in Marketing and International Business. His Buzzmarketing concept has won two Icon Awards in radio as well as alternative media.

Hughes' book, Buzzmarketing, was heralded by Fast Company as one of "The Ten Best Business Reads of 2005".

Kurt Brown
Mr. Brown is a creative and innovative research director who has provided analytical and strategic consulting to automakers, vehicle parts suppliers and automotive finance companies worldwide for over 20 years. His expertise is in applying statistical research, predictive analytics and quantitative model building. Kurt is currently a Vice President at AmeriCredit where he directs a team of analysts focused on asset remarketing, bankruptcy and loss recovery. AmeriCredit sells 7,000 to 8,000 repossessed vehicles each month and maximizing recoveries is critical to the company’s financial performance.

Previously, Kurt was a Vice President for Strategy and Analytics at RSA Solutions, an industry leader in strategic vehicle remarketing. Before joining RSA, Kurt was a partner at the Campbell Group, LLC, a consulting firm that provided analytical and strategic consulting to the automotive and auto finance industries.

Prior to that, he directed global automotive forecasting for Standard and Poor's/DRI's, where he co-authored the Automotive and Parts Industrial Outlook for the U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook '98, a joint publication with the U.S. Commerce Department, as well as a multi-client study of the developing Latin American automotive market.

Kurt is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Boston College, where he received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics; he has also completed all course requirements for his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University.