XLerate Group announced that Pat Dudash has joined XLerate as its Senior Vice President of Sales. XLerate is a leading group of dealer-centric auctions with physical and satellite sale operations in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Wisconsin.

“Pat Dudash has 25 years’ experience in the automotive retail, wholesale, remarketing, services and rental car segments. He is an accomplished sales and marketing professional, and has built high performance sales teams in previous positions.” said Cam Hitchcock, XLerate’s CEO.  

Prior to joining XLerate, Dudash had been a senior  sales or remarketing executive at Insurance Auto Auctions, ADESA, JM Family and Alamo Rent A Car. 

Hitchcock continued, “We are very excited to have Pat join our team.  He will be working closely with our auction-based dealer and fleet-lease sales teams. Pat also brings unique insight to XLerate on the impact of technology for both our physical and upstream remarketing channels.”

“I look forward to working with the senior team to grow XLerate. The XLerate auctions are widely recognized for superior customer service, which is an excellent foundation for continued growth,” said Dudash. “I’m confident that my prior experience as both a dealer and institutional consignor has positioned me to help shape XLerate’s strategy and contribute significantly to XLerate’s development.”