Innovative Aftermarket Systems (IAS) Appoints Bob Corbin as Executive Chairman and Taps Patrick Brown as the Company's New President and CEO
Austin, Texas – IAS, a leading provider of F&I solutions
to the automotive industry, today announced that Patrick Brown has joined the
company as president and CEO effective September 12, 2016. Mr. Brown
succeeds longtime IAS executive Bob Corbin who has been with the company
since 2000. Mr. Corbin will continue to play a key role in the company
transitioning his focus to mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Brown’s experience running high growth private companies and divisions of
high growth public companies makes him uniquely suited for the leading role at
IAS. Furthermore, Mr. Brown’s experience in non-automotive financial services
industries affords him a fresh perspective to help grow IAS.
“I have spent a lot of time with Patrick over this process and am convinced that
he is the right person at the right time for IAS. He is a big picture thinker with a
proven track record of successfully managing and growing companies and that
kind of vision is something we need more of in F&I,” said Bob Corbin, executive
chairman at IAS. “I’m incredibly proud of my tenure at IAS and the team that we
have put in place. I lit the torch and now I’m ready to pass it on.”
Before joining IAS, Mr. Brown served as the General Manager of the Commercial
Prepaid business for Netspend, a division of Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:
TSS). In this role Mr. Brown was responsible for the strategy and overall growth
of Netspend’s commercial prepaid division. Mr. Brown joined Netspend
subsequent to its acquisition of Procesa International, LLC where Mr. Brown was
founder and CEO. Mr. Brown also served as General Manager of Euronet
Payments & Remittance, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT). Mr. Brown joined Euronet subsequent to its acquisition of
Continental Transfer, of which he was a co-founder and served as chief operating
officer.
“I’m thrilled to be joining the IAS family. Bob and team have done an outstanding
job over the last 16 years positioning IAS as the market leader in the F&I
industry. I’m looking forward to working with the IAS team and the company’s
extended family of nationwide partners,” said Patrick Brown, president and CEO
at IAS. “
Mr. Brown holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte and bachelor's degrees in economics and finance from
Wingate University. He and his family currently reside in Austin, Texas.
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