Digital Air Strike is pleased to announce that Phil Valachi has joined the company as the senior vice president of Operations and Client Success. Valachi will lead Digital Air Strike’s Operations and Client Success teams, focusing on continuing the company’s excellent track record of delivering exceptional ROI to over 7,700 clients nationwide. For example, Digital Air Strike won three 2020 Dealers’ Choice awards.
“It’s great to have Phil’s expertise at Digital Air Strike. He is a proven automotive veteran that I have had the pleasure of knowing since our time together working at Dealertrack,” said Alexi Venneri, co-founder and CEO of Digital Air Strike. Venneri previously ran Marketing, Communications, and Investor Relations at Dealertrack and was part of the senior executive team that took Dealertrack public in 2005. “It’s wonderful to work together again and leverage Phil’s deep experience working in auto retail tech, digital marketing, and F&I with dealers, OEMs, and technology vendors.”
Valachi has over 20 years of Operational and Client Services leadership experience. The foundation of his auto experience began at Dealertrack in New York, where he spent 12 years leading the Service and Operations teams for Sales and F&I Solutions, Digital Retailing Solutions, Inventory Solutions, and Registration & Titling Services. At Dealertrack, he also led the Data Operations, Product Implementation and Client Services teams.
Valachi spent almost five years at National Credit Center in Las Vegas as a VP and SVP. He streamlined and centralized operations, created and ran the Client Success team, and helped drive tremendous growth by improving retention rates and growing share of wallet through additional upsell opportunities with NCC’s products and services. Valachi also worked at GSM in Houston for almost two years. He implemented scalable operations that supported Tier 1-3 marketing program executions, built out a new Customer Success team and managed the print facility shop supporting dealer mail campaigns.
“Digital Air Strike fit my background exactly and complemented what I’ve loved doing for years. It’s also great to reunite with Alexi Venneri and Jason Barrie (Digital Air Strike’s Chief Strategy Officer) to continue our joint track record of growing companies that deliver exceptional value to the automotive industry,” Valachi said. “I love scaling and building out operational teams and elevating client success models. The scope of the enhanced Digital Air Strike platform, paired with their impressive technology, is extremely exciting. We have a lot of great things happening at Digital Air Strike, and I look forward to helping our clients and partners be more efficient and profitable with our solutions.”
As a native of Long Island, New York, Valachi graduated from the College of Staten Island with a bachelor’s degree in finance.
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