After 15+ years in the automotive software industry, we are more excited than ever to innovate cutting-edge solutions for our customers.  Our team is driven by the passion and knowledge of our clients.  DealerMine’s success and the strength of our CRM is thanks to them.  We are always looking for new and better ways to help our clients leverage their customer relationships to drive their sales and service revenues.  To our customers, thank you for inspiring us to be great, and driving us to always be better.

MEET THE TEAM

Maury Marks
President & CEO

Maury Marks

President & CEO

Throughout his career, Maury Marks has established himself as a visionary in the automotive retail technology industry. As one of the original founders, and as the President and CEO of Quorum Information Technologies, Maury has created a tram that is committed to building and providing the best dealership management system in the industry. Growing up in Alberta, Canada, Maury worked in his family’s GM dealership. During this time, he was exposed to the facets of dealership management and the challenges dealer’s face from both a business and technology standpoint. In 1996, Maury’s family approached him in need of a new DMS. After evaluating and realizing that the DMS industry was largely stagnated, Maury and his partners conceived the idea of Quorum. He focused the company on the development of its flagship XSellerator DMS software. Maury earned a Bachelor of Management (with Distinction) from the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada in 1988. He then received his Chartered Accountant’s designation couple of years later after articling with Deloitte and Touche in Calgary. Maury started in the accounting group and eventually moved to the firm’s technology practice where he had the experience of helping various corporations select and implement technology and systems that best fit their business needs. In 1992, Maury made the decision to leave Deloitte and Touche to begin his own practice of technology consulting. While Maury is not on business trips, he can be found in Quorum’s headquarters in Calgary, Alberta.

Marilyn Bown
Chief Financial Officer

Marilyn Bown

Chief Financial Officer

Throughout his career, Maury Marks has established himself as a visionary in the automotive retail technology industry. As one of the original founders, and as the President and CEO of Quorum Information Technologies, Maury has created a tram that is committed to building and providing the best dealership management system in the industry. Growing up in Alberta, Canada, Maury worked in his family’s GM dealership. During this time, he was exposed to the facets of dealership management and the challenges dealer’s face from both a business and technology standpoint. In 1996, Maury’s family approached him in need of a new DMS. After evaluating and realizing that the DMS industry was largely stagnated, Maury and his partners conceived the idea of Quorum. He focused the company on the development of its flagship XSellerator DMS software. Maury earned a Bachelor of Management (with Distinction) from the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada in 1988. He then received his Chartered Accountant’s designation couple of years later after articling with Deloitte and Touche in Calgary. Maury started in the accounting group and eventually moved to the firm’s technology practice where he had the experience of helping various corporations select and implement technology and systems that best fit their business needs. In 1992, Maury made the decision to leave Deloitte and Touche to begin his own practice of technology consulting. While Maury is not on business trips, he can be found in Quorum’s headquarters in Calgary, Alberta.

Bruce Atkinson
VP Operations

Bruce Atkinson

VP Operations

Over his 20+ year career, Bruce has had the opportunity to lead teams from 30 to 300+ in diverse aspects of operations including contact centers, centralized business processing, technical support, client care and training, among others. He has progressively senior experience working in organizations with both national and North American operations. From 2010 to 2018, Bruce worked for Dealermine, first as BDC Manager, then VP of Operations until December 2018. After Dealermine, Bruce worked as the General Manager of Grant Thorton’s national Consumer Insolvency Business Unit. 

Bruce is a collaborative and flexible leader with a track record of building and working with high-performing teams. His passion for coaching, mentoring and helping his colleagues grow is hard to miss. His commitment to Quorum’s mission and building an operations team which delivers exceptional value to our dealers and their customers is equally hard to miss.  

Rick Johnston
VP Product Management

Rick Johnston

VP Product Management

With more than a decade of real-life sales floor experience and the vision to build world-class products, Rick brings a fresh take on how software is solving some of the automotive retail industry’s most pressing challenges. In 2006, Rick joined Quorum as an Implementation Specialist, a role that saw him travel to more than 100 dealerships across North America. Three years later he moved into the position of Business Analyst which was where he found his passion for designing industry changing projects. In 2010, Rick founded Autovance Technologies: he managed Autovance in combination with his career at Quorum until September of 2013, when he decided to pursue his vision to build the next generation of desking tools full-time. Rick began building the team at Autovance in late 2014 and it has been growing ever since. By the summer of 2016, Autovance Desk, Canada’s most advanced web-based desking took, was built and it is already helping hundreds of dealerships sell more care across Canada. The relationship between Quorum and Autovance was built on a strong foundation and in 201y it took the most logical next step as Quorum acquired Autovance. As a result, Rick rejoined Quorum as the Vice President of Autovance. Rick works out of the Autovance headquarters in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Jane Webb
VP Sales & Marketing

Jane Webb

VP Sales & Marketing

With over a decade of experience in the automotive software industry, Jane brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to fixed operations and BDC solutions. During her tenure, Jane has led many teams – BDC operations, account management, training as well as sales and marketing for our DealerMine division. Mostly recently, she has stepped into VP of Product Management for Quorum’s service and BDC solutions. Jane’s career at Quorum has kept her close to our customers, delivering products that drive results. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University.

Yossi Ronnen
VP Software Development

Yossi Ronnen

VP Software Development

With over 20 years of software industry experience, Yossi Ronnen joins Quorum as Vice President of Software development, determined to improve our software and bring it to the cloud, while fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and dedication within his team.

Yossi had worked in start-up companies, as well as large corporations starting as a software developer and moving to leadership roles. He helped modernize legacy systems as well as create new and highly performing applications that can run on your computer or phone. In his recent position, Yossi and his team delivered an ecommerce cloud-based software used by merchants such as Sephora, Columbia, and Ubisoft that handled 3.4 million orders valued at 148mm CAD during last Black Friday alone. While working at VFA, Yossi delivered FacilityView. an award-winning mobile SaaS software solution that allows clients to monitor their assets portfolio using a customizable dashboard, used by large municipalities, government organizations, and private sector corporations.

Yossi has a Master of Business Administration (majoring in MIS and Finance) from Degroote School of Business of McMaster University, an engineering BSc in Information Systems, PMP Certificate from the Project Management Institute, and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification from ISACA.

Yossi is an avid runner and was excited to go back to an in person running recently at the Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon. He is now looking forward to next spring’s Sporting Life 10K where he plans on fund raising for Campfire Circle, and organization that restores the life experiences that are lost due to childhood cancer. As a father of two, Yossi likes to explore the great outdoors with his family.

Andrea Noseworthy
Director, Human Resources

Andrea Noseworthy

Director, Human Resources

If one word could be used to describe me, it would be kind! Apart from ensuring that all the ducks in the company are in a row, I also take care of the well-being of all the Quorumites. As Human Resources Manager, I am directly responsible for the culture and amazing people at Quorum (heck, I found many of them and brought them in myself!). I am also known as the listener and coach of the company. I always lend a sympathetic ear if something is bothering someone and will send you off with sage advice.

Lana Murphy
Director of Finance

Lana Murphy

Director of Finance

I earned my CPA, CGA designation in 2011.  I have been in the Finance/Accounting/HR Management role for 20+ years.  I love my job and the challenges that it brings.  I feel at home here with the DealerMine team.  The one thing that the most people would say about me is you are more than likely to hear my laugh before you see me.  I love to have a good laugh.

Jennifer Phillips
Director of Customer Success

Jennifer Phillips

Director of Customer Success

Personal development is really the thing I hang my hat in work and in life. I’m always looking for ways to do things better or different. My brain functions best in overdrive which is perfect for my role because every day is “game day” and you have to give a 110% effort. My “go to” after a busy day is going on Pinterest and saving quotes and recipes that I’ll never make and spending quality time with my husband and boys.

Darren Hawthorne
Director, Information Technology

Darren Hawthorne

Director, Information Technology

Darren is one of Quorum’s veterans who joined the company shortly after it was founded. He has filled many shoes in his time with the company, including Network Specialist and Network Services Manager. In March 2008, Darren and his family relocated to the most easterly city in North America, St. John’s, Newfoundland to be in direct contact with the Network Services team. He has since then, moved back to his home in Edmonton, AB, where he leads our research and development team, which defines the technology platform that Quorum uses for its customers and internally.

OUR COMMUNITY

Children’s Wish Foundation

As is the spirit of our fantastic DealerMine staff, we all get together and our teams alone raised $12,000.00 on top of the regular $10,000.00 we give each year. Exile Island has become a DealerMine sponsored event and it has come to life with the staff at DealerMine volunteering their time to make it a such a success.

Christmas Families

The staff of DealerMine are very generous all year but during Christmas they kick it up a notch. Each year DealerMine takes part in supporting many Christmas families. The staff are fully involved in providing necessities for these families to ensure that they enjoy a wonderful Christmas.

YMCA Basketball & Books

DealerMine CRM is proud to support a unique, local YMCA program called, Basketball and Books. The program encourages young students within the inner-city schools to read with players from our professional basketball team, the Saint John Riptides. The goal is to increase literacy among children in our community. Part of the draw for the kids is that they get to play and be coached by Riptide players. The kids are provided shoes and shirts and play teams from other schools.

Sistema NB

DealerMine proudly supports Sistema NB.

The mission of Sistema NB is to inspire children and youth to achieve their full potential through learning and performing orchestral music together.

The children spend a remarkable 3 hours per day after school for 5 days per week in group and individual instruction.