New Jersey Dealer Mike DeSilva to Serve as AIADA’s 2023 Chairman

New Jersey Dealer Mike DeSilva to Serve as AIADA’s 2023 Chairman

DeSilva, who is the co-owner of Liberty Auto Group in northern New Jersey, accepted the chairman’s gavel during an AIADA event in Dallas, Texas on Friday night.

The American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) has named New Jersey dealer Mike DeSilva as its 2023 chairman. DeSilva, who is the co-owner of Liberty Auto Group in northern New Jersey, accepted the chairman’s gavel during an AIADA event in Dallas, Texas on Friday night.

“As a second-generation international nameplate dealer, I’ve seen personally how important it is to work with AIADA to protect my stores, employees, and customers,” said DeSilva, whose father Rick DeSilva served as AIADA’s chairman in 2010. “Advocating in D.C. to preserve global trade and maintain a level playing field on which all dealers can compete is vital to our future, and a mission worth fighting for.”

The family-owned Liberty Auto Group is comprised of Liberty Subaru in Emerson, N.J.; Liberty Kia in Ramsey, N.J.; Liberty Hyundai in Mahwah, N.J.; and Genesis of Mahwah. Mike grew up working in his family’s Subaru dealership and has said that as AIADA Chairman he wants to focus on building and maintaining dealer-lawmaker relationships on Capitol Hill. “Our legislators need to acknowledge and celebrate the investment the international nameplate auto industry has made in America,” he told AIADA members. “We’ve been here for multiple generations, creating jobs, paying taxes, and building and selling the vehicles Americans want to drive. We’re not going anywhere.”

DeSilva is joined as on officer on the AIADA board of directors by John Connelly, Immediate Past Chairman (Dublin, Ohio); Anthony Brownlee, Chairman-Elect (Denver, Colorado); Valerie Romero, Secretary/Treasurer (Ontario, California); and Cody Lusk, AIADA President & CEO (Arlington, Virginia).

For more about AIADA and its 9,383 dealers who employ over 543,000 Americans, visit www.AIADA.org. To learn more about Mike DeSilva, watch a short video here.

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