John Altman named by Automotive News as High-Achieving Under 40 Auto Dealer

John Altman named by Automotive News as High-Achieving Under 40 Auto Dealer

John Altman, COO of the Beyer Auto Group, has been named as an auto dealer to watch by Automotive News. He joins fellow WANADA dealer member Jamie Darvish, DARCARS, in the publications inaugural listing of high-achieving auto dealers under the age of 40 across the U.S. Jamie Darvish was spotlighted here last week.

Automotive News editors reviewed and validated information on several hundred nominated candidates and selected the standouts.

Altman, 35, is the grandson of noted Washington dealer Don Beyer, Sr., and credits his success in the automobile dealership business to his grandfathers decision to put him to work sweeping the six-acre back lot of Don Beyer Volvo in Falls Church, VA, when he was 14 and getting in trouble. It turned everything around, Altman said.

In June, Altman became chief operating officer of the five-store Beyer Auto Group that currently sells Volvo, Land Rover, and Kia in different locations. The promotion came seven years after Altman began managing the groups Land Rover store in Alexandria, VA, which had been losing money. While there, he revamped the entire operation and returned it to profitability in two years. Today, the Land Rover store is one of the most profitable in the Beyer Auto Group.

Altman still checks in with his grandfather, who is now 88, for advice and guidance just as he relied on it as he went through college and learned the automobile business. Without his grandfathers influence, Altman says he likely would have pursued a career in law or psychology, which, of course, arent distant fields of endeavor from his current position at Beyer Automotive.

Selling cars didnt feel like a career at first, he says, but that has changed such that I expect Ill be in this business the rest of my life. WANADA congratulates John Altman on this well-deserved recognition.

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