Chris Vail

About Chris

Chris Vail, over his nearly 15-year career in automotive, has served in a nearly all- encompassing range of parts-centric roles within the automotive field. His career began during his time studying at KU in 2011, to pay his way through college, but quickly became his main focus. He started with one of the country’s largest automotive franchise owners, Hendrick Automotive, in a shipping and receiving position. Learning quickly, he was able to move from shipping & receiving, to delivery, back parts counter, front parts counter, and finally on to Collision parts manager. There, he was tasked with replacing the combined efforts of their existing 3-person parts team, on his own. After nearly 8 years with Hendrick Automotive, he moved to Thoroughbred Ford to further his career, serving over 3 years as their assistant parts and service manager. There he was able to spearhead increasing their wholesale parts sales, growing their wholesale gross profit margin by 89% from $97k/month, to $184k/month. Shortly after the large Covid outbreak of 2020, he parted ways with Thoroughbred Ford in 2021 to pursue a life of entrepreneurship, working nights and weekends as private driver and event coordinator to fund an online sales business over the next couple of years. Ultimately, he found his way back into the automotive field in 2023 where he was hired as Randy Curnow Collision’s newest Collision Parts and Production Manager.

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