Built In Chicago Insider Spotlight: Learn How KAR Is Leading a Digital Transformation in an Old-School Industry

May 01, 2018 |

Built In Chicago Insider Spotlight article published April 30, 2018:

While KAR operates in the old school industry of automotive auctions, it approaches everything with the mindset of a startup. “Our chairman and CEO, Jim Hallett, likes to say ‘we’re disrupting from within,’” said Kayne Grau, who is president of data as a service and KAR auction services.

That mindset has helped the company stay at the forefront of the industry’s digital transformation, adding data analytics, a mobile auction platform and more in the past year.

We spoke with four leaders at KAR about the company’s growth and how they plan to lead the auto auction industry’s digital transformation….