Bryan DeBoer's impact on automotive retail is easy to spot.
Just look at the bustling dealership buy-sell market. As Lithia Motors Inc. CEO, DeBoer accelerated the auto retail giant's acquisition pace last year and altered the buy-sell landscape with the April 2021 supersized purchase of Michigan's Suburban Collection and its 34 dealerships.
It was the first of four mega acquisitions by the publicly traded auto retailers in the U.S. in 2021, in what is considered the biggest year for acquisitions in auto retail industry history.