Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Jordan Smith is a high school student at West-Mec pursuing her education in the automotive sector. She was the top female student in TechForce’s Peer-Network beta test. TechForce helps any and all ages to advance their career options. 

Kassidy Nixon is an 18 year old student at Central Carolina Community College where she is studying automotive restoration, collision repair, and refinishing. She is an RPM scholar, FutureTechs Rock Automotive Restoration student of the year for 2020, Collision Repair Education Foundation 2019 student of the year runner up, CCCC outstanding student in Automotive Restoration and in Collision Repair and Refinishing.

Sheri Harbour de Vos is the Marketing and Events Director at Ron Tonkin Gran Turismo, the Portland Ferrari dealership. After a twist of fate she found herself working at Ron Tonkin Gran Turismo as the Marketing Director which later brought her to a time as the Director as Avants Portland Car Club.

Alexis Chacchia is the Vice President of Operations at Premier Financial Services which is one of the nation’s leading finance companies specializing in exotic, vintage and luxury cars. This allowed the exotic and luxury car consumer to payoff or trade their vehicles at any time providing flexibility of financing and the tax benefits of leasing.

James O’Kane is the Founder of O’Kane Lavers, a hub for motor car collectors from around the world. They handle sales and acquisitions for the finest and most important vehicles from a variety of marques and years. Their global network allows them to provide a personal experience and advocacy for both sellers, buyers, and collectors alike.

Dennis Gage is the owner of MadStache, a production company he’s had since 2010. MadStache is a full-service multimedia company specializing in television programming, corporate videos, commercial production, 2D and 3D animation, DVD authoring, and web design.

Kaity Truble is a Junior at West-Mec High School pursuing an education in the automotive field. She is a great example of the next generation of automotive enthusiasts who already know what she wants to do in her career. She knew she wanted to be in the industry at age 12 and already has her tax ID and an LLC business license for the day she opens her own shop. 

Brad Horstmann is a North American gentleman race car driver currently racing with Riley Motorsports and Foreign Cars Italia in the Ferrari Challenge North America Series.  He has finished on the podium in 65% of his races entered including 8 class wins.

Jennifer Maher serves as CEO of TechForce Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission of championing students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians in the auto, diesel, collision, aviation, restoration, motorcycle, marine and motorsports industries.  And I am very proud to say TechForce Foundation is Cars Yeah charity of choice.

In 1999, Chris Brown founded RateGenius, Inc., a multi-state, web-based loan company specializing in automotive refinance. Chris continually works with lending institutions to ensure RateGenius offers loans which benefit customers while also meeting the lenders' predetermined guidelines. 

Carl Anthony is the Managing Editor of Automoblog and AutoVision News.  As the host for AutoSens Insights, he plays an active role in the thrice-yearly AutoSens conference for autonomous driving in Brussels, Detroit, and Hong Kong. 

Alicia Elfving is the founder of TheMotoLady.com, the world's leading websites for women who ride, as well as the world's first Women's Motorcycle Show. Her book titled The Motolady’s Book Of Women Who Ride is a collection of motorcycle heroes, trailblazers, and record-breakers. 

Tracy Powell is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years’ worth of writing, editing and project management in a variety of industries, including automotive, with more than 500 articles published. These days he operates his own publishing business, Powell House Creative Services, that involves ghostwriting and book production. 

Frank Fanelli won “Bitchin’ Boot Camp” that landed him a job at Dave Kindig’s shop Kindig-it Design, and so started his career in the automotive industry after years of car restoration being his hobby and passion.

Zack Williams is the Head of Business Operations at Clasiq, an all-new, truly independent on-line classic car auction experience that is built by the community, for the community. 

Mercedes Lilienthal is an award-winning photojournalist and PR/marketing consultant that creates unique content involving vehicular adventure travel, the automotive industry as a whole, and women making a difference within it. She and her husband Andy, run a blog site and related social pages called Crankshaft Culture.

Alex “Sharky” Ross owns and operates Shark Werks, a Porsche focused business he founded in 2005. Their 3.9 liter and 4.1 liter GT3 engines have been lighting up Porsche cars everywhere and you’ve probably seen them playing with Jay Leno and Joe Rogan in multitudes of online and print automotive publications over the past 15 and a half years.

Michael Mitchell is the Curator of Collections at the BMW CCA Foundation Museum. The Foundation is part of the BMW Car Club of America, an organization of over 60,000 members. Their vision is to be a living repository of BMW information and to benefit the motoring community. 

Richard Truesdell has been an automotive photojournalist for over 25 years. He has photographed and collaborated on over 25 automotive books from all marques and genres. His latest venture, a collaboration with Mark Fletcher on the book titled 1970 Maximum Muscle cars.

Mark is a Muscle car collector that has experienced all makes of muscle cars of the late 60’s and early 70’s. 1970 Maximum Muscle is the second, of a three-book collaboration with his friend Richard Truesdell who not only assisted in the writing of this book, but was also the primary photographic contributor.