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Frederick, Md. — Carey International announced it has named Sandy Miller as its new chief executive officer and has tapped Dan Miller to fill the role of chief operating officer. Both officers will join Mitchell Lahr, Carey International’s current chief financial officer, in the formation of the new Office of the CEO.
Sandy brings over 30 years of experience in the travel and transportation industries to Carey International. Most notably, he served as chairman and CEO of Budget Group, the NYSE listed parent of Budget Rent a Car Corporation from 1997 to 2003. Most recently, Sandy served as a founding partner at Basin Street Partners, an investment management firm based in Daytona Beach, Fla. Previously, he was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Team Rental Group, a NASDAQ-listed company that owned various transportation businesses throughout the United States, including a number of large Budget Rent a Car franchises. Sandy also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Europcar Groupe, one of the world’s largest mobility companies publicly traded on Euronext Paris.
Joining Sandy in the Office of the CEO as Carey International’s new COO is his son, and business partner, Dan.
Dan has spent the last eight years in the travel and transportation industries managing Basin Street Partners’ investments in the sectors. Additionally, Dan has actively provided consulting services to public-equity investors with holdings in the travel and transportation sectors. Prior to joining Basin Street Partners, he was the founder & CEO of a transportation technology company serving the global public-transit sector and also held various investment banking roles at Deutsche Bank Securities.
“Carey International is a dynamic company operating in an industry undergoing rapid change. During this exciting time for our industry and our company, Carey has continued to provide world-class service and safety to its global customer base,” said Sandy Miller, CEO of Carey International, “at the same time, Carey has developed technology-driven solutions that have been widely adopted by its clients. Dan and I look forward to working closely with Carey’s over one-thousand global employees to strengthen Carey’s leadership position in the market.”
Visit carey.com for more information.
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Luxury Coach’s new 2019 Prevost H3-45 motorcoaches
Concord, Ontario — To celebrate their 20 years in coach transportation, Luxury Coach took delivery of eight fully loaded 2019 Prevost H3-45 motorcoaches this past spring. The company has grown steadily into a company of 40 dedicated employees who accommodate and serve customers with every mode of transportation and staying busy year-round. This most recent acquisition brings the coach count to 31 in the all-Prevost fleet and includes one Prevost H3-41 VIP.
“Prevost was our first choice and is the only coach we have ever run,” says Luxury Coach Founding Partner Anthony Lauriola. “Our new 2019 H3-45s allow us to continue to serve our customers in what we truly believe is the finest coach on the market.”
The company has systematically grown and updated its coach fleet since 2003 and has acquired new model Prevost coaches since 2010.
“If it weren’t for Glen Gendron, our Prevost sales representative at the time, we would still be running a fleet of older coaches and known only as that average transportation company,” says Lauriola. “He was the realist who walked us through the process and helped us understand the value of buying new.”
Serge Gonthier, Prevost regional sales manager, Eastern Canada, has since taken over for Gendron in the Toronto region.
“Serge is well informed and his deals always feel like the right choice for us,” says Lauriola. “He goes out of his way as a close friend would to walk us through our questions and concerns.”
The new model coaches feature Prevost’s proprietary 500-HP Electric Fan Drive, which reduces mechanical drag and load on the engine and components. Technicians can now service the engine without disturbing the entire cooling system.
The state of the art Prevost AWARE is standard on the 2019 H3-45 and features Adaptive Cruise Control and Impact Alert signals to help drivers avoid collisions. Electronic Stability Program tracks vehicle movement, monitoring wheel speed, steering angle, lateral acceleration, and yaw to help avoid loss of control and prevent rollovers.
With this coach order, Luxury Coach also took the opportunity to upgrade the interiors with a combination of luxury leather and fabric for the seats, and to fully refresh its public image with all-new graphics and color scheme.
Visit luxury.to or prevostcar.com for more information.
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MLOA Executive Director Barbara Oliver
Henderson, Nev. — The Minority Limousine Operators of America (MLOA) welcome longtime advisory board member Barbara Oliver as its new executive director.
Her tenure officially began September 1, and she has accepted the role on a temporary one-year basis, with the option to extend her duties if she wishes to.
Oliver said that she happened to be on a conference call with MLOA President Maurice Brewster of Mosaic Global Transportation, who volunteered her for the executive director positon.
“It’s hard for me to say no to certain people—and Maurice is certainly one of them,” she said with a laugh. “We spent a month working out the details of making this happen, since I do have a day job and I wanted to guarantee that I can give the time required to make it a successful partnership.”
If Oliver’s name sounds familiar, it may be because of that day job as publisher of the award-winning Minority Business Entrepreneur (MBE) trade magazine, as well as her role as president of the minority- and woman-owned Enterprise Publishing.
Her time with MBE has, in fact, given her “a periphery view of the transportation industry” well before she first teamed up with the MLOA.
“MBE was born from the transportation area,” Oliver said, explaining that the previous owner was inspired to found the publication by reading about minority business opportunities in Department of Transportation work—but that “nobody was really talking to minority businesses to let them know about these opportunities.”
“The magazine was essentially born from what she was learning back in the early ’80s about what the government was doing to encourage more minority businesses to participate in the transportation world.”
Oliver also is an active supporter of the Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council and serves on various committees for the Women’s Business Enterprise Council-West, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, and the MLOA. She has been a keynote speaker, moderator, and panelist, and is the recipient of several organization awards. The wife and mother of two is a native of Jamaica who earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Along with an impressive background, Oliver also brings big plans to her new role at the MLOA.
“There are a few things that need to be done strategically, and that’s what we’ll be working on initially,” she said. “The MLOA meeting at the Chauffeur Driven Show is where we’ll lay out our plans for the next six to 10 months after that, which runs to the end of my initial term. I’ll be working hard to get the association to the next level.”
MLOA’s meeting at the 2018 Chauffeur Driven Show will be the morning of October 9.
Visit mlooa.org for more information.
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