NMAC, BMW Executives Join AFS Speaker Faculty

The Auto Finance Summit, the industry’s premiere event slated for Oct. 22- 24, has bolstered its speaker faculty with the addition of auto finance executives Jeff Edwards and Shaun Bugbee.

Edwards, vice president of operations at Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp., and Bugbee, vice president of sales operations at BMW Financial Services, will join John Hyatt, president of Bank of America Dealer Financial Services, on the executive panel that will dive into topics like: discipline in the face of percolating competition, managing margin compression, and identifying new products and growth opportunities.

Edwards and Bugbee also join an esteemed roster of speakers, which includes George Borst, president and chief executive of Toyota Financial Services; Brian Fallon, senior vice president of commercial lending services at General Motors Financial; Andrew Kang, director of capital markets at Santander; Charles Bradley Jr., president and CEO at Consumer Portfolio Services; Jim Landy, president and CEO at CarFinance Capital, and Bill Strauss, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

The executive dialogue session will take place at 9 a.m. on Wed., Oct. 24. To register for the conference or to see the full list of speakers, visit www.AutoFinanceSummit.com.