Ryan Alley is the Chief Information Officer at Classic Collision, where he leads the technology, cybersecurity, and digital innovation initiatives across the organization.. Ryan joined Classic Collision in 2021. Prior to Classic Collision Ryan spent 20+ years as a technology leader, building data and automation platforms across the automotive, consumer insights, and finance industries.
Levi Fawcett is the Founder and CEO of Partly, which builds domain-specific AI for the auto parts industry. Partly’s digital parts infrastructure enables businesses across the parts supply chain to build and scale complex parts systems with unprecedented accuracy in parts identification.
A Forbes 30 Under 30, Levi served as a lead engineer at Rocket Lab, where he spearheaded the guidance and simulation team responsible for mission-critical rocket navigation systems, founded four companies, before scaling Partly and raising a $21 million Series A.
Currently expanding into North America, Partly’s proprietary technology is being deployed by MSOs to standardise and optimise procurement across their networks.
Brian Kaner is the President and CEO of Boyd Group Services Inc. He joined Boyd in October 2022 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Boyd Group’s collision business. Mr. Kaner had responsibility for Boyd’s collision operations in both the United States and Canada. On August 8, 2024, Mr. Kaner was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer. In his expanded role, Mr. Kaner had operating responsibility for the entire company. On May 14, 2025, Mr. Kaner was appointed as President and CEO of BGSI. Mr. Kaner was previously CEO & President of Pep Boys & Icahn Automotive Services where he led all functional disciplines and field leadership teams overseeing 1,000 company owned and nearly 800 franchise locations. Before joining Icahn Enterprises L.P., Mr. Kaner worked for Sears Holdings Corporation as President of Sears Auto Centers.
Kyle Krumlauf is Director of Industry Analytics for CCC Intelligent Solutions, a leading cloud platform powering the P&C insurance economy, responsible for equipping customers with information and insights to help them manage their businesses.
Kyle brings over 20 years of industry experience, having served in a variety of leadership and individual contributor roles at Nationwide and Grange Insurance. His list of relevant accomplishments is long and varied – working in Claims, Comparative Rating, Product Management, Competitive Intelligence, Commercial Lines BI & Analytics, and Innovation. He was awarded a CEO Award at Nationwide in 2014 for Innovation & Continuous Improvement, and an Accolade Award at Grange in 2019 for his work in Innovation.
Kyle earned a BA in Political Science and History from Ashland University and an MBA from Ohio Dominican University. He also holds the CPCU and ARM designations. Kyle resides in Dublin, Ohio with his wife, Clare, and sons, Evan and Henry.
Michael Normyle is a U.S. economist at Nasdaq. As part of the Economic Research group, he works with the Chief Economist in helping clients internally and externally understand the market implications of macroeconomic developments and forecasts.
Michael has over 10 years of experience in macroeconomic research. Prior to joining Nasdaq at the start of 2022, he developed expertise in economic cycle forecasting, including business cycles and inflation cycles for the G20 economies, at the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI). His work focused on identifying cyclical and structural economic trends and their implications for monetary policy and for country-specific, regional, and global macroeconomic outlooks.
Between his experience at Nasdaq and ECRI, Michael understands how macroeconomics works in the real economy and how it impacts markets.
Michael has a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Applied Economics, both from Johns Hopkins University.
Dan is the Vice President of Quality Repair and Market Development for CCC Intelligent Solutions. He has spent the past 30 years working in the collision repair industry. He began working in a family owned and operated collision repair facility in Chicago, Illinois. Upon leaving the family business, he began his career in the industry by working as a refinish sales and service representative for BASF and later as a project manager for CCC Information Services. He spent eight years as the President of the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) and five years as the President of the Automotive Service Association (ASA). In 2021, he was inducted into the collision industry’s hall of fame (Hall of Eagles).
In his current role at CCC, he works closely with the collision repairers, insurance carriers and the car manufacturers as advanced driver assistance systems become a greater part of the claims and repair processes. In addition to his volunteer activity with the MSO Symposium, Dan is also the current chairman of the Collision Industry Conference (CIC).
Dan’s has participated on many board and committees over his career including: Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) board member, Collision Industry Conference (CIC) Database Task Force co-chair, CIC Data Access, Privacy & Security Committee co-chair, Collision Industry Foundation (CIF) chariman, Automotive Management Institute (AMI) board member, Certified Aftermarket Parts Association (CAPA) technical committee, Aftermarket Telematics Task Force member, NSF Repair Standard advisory board, Database Enhancement Gateway (DEG) board member, State Farm Advisory Council, Taiwan Aftermarket Parts Task Force and National Auto Body Council (NABC) board member.
David Roberts is the Founder and Managing Director of Focus Advisors. the industry’s leading M&A advisor. He is best known for co-founding Caliber Collision Centers with his partner Matthew Ohrnstein in 1997 — envisioning a more collaborative repair process across insurance companies, insureds, and repairers. After raising the first private equity capital in the industry, David and his partner began buying, rationalizing, and systematizing collision repair shops into the nation’s first consolidated, performance-based MSO. By the time of its sale in 2008, Caliber was the world’s largest collision repair consolidator, a position it continues to hold today with more than $8 billion in sales.
After leading dozens of acquisitions for Caliber, David saw an opportunity to help other MSO owners achieve superior results in growing and selling their businesses. He founded Focus Advisors Automotive M&A with a proven method to help them grow, thrive, and prepare for a strategic exit. Over the past ten years, David has led $500 million in 35 separate automotive transactions. Today, Focus Advisors, a FINRA-registered investment bank, has grown to include a team of eight professionals— all committed to the same mission of helping MSO owners realize the full value of what they’ve worked so hard to build.
Focus Advisors has invested in creating a comprehensive and proprietary database of the entire collision repair industry including the largest consolidators, private equity investors, more than 800 MSOs and 25,000 single shops including dealers. The firm also tracks transaction values from large MSOs to single shops and everything in between which allows them to provide the best informed valuation advice to its many clients.
David received his B.A. from Duke University and his MBA and JD from University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Gail Simpson. Together they have two daughters and a new grandson!
Jimmy is the Head of Automotive and Property for Tractable, which develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Growing exponentially across 14 countries, the solution has processed more that $2B in auto accidents and accelerated recovery for over a million households, equipping 31+ of the top 100 global insurers.
Prior to Tractable, he led the USAA Auto Experience and the USAA Global Auto Physical Damage operations and strategy. Before that, he led the Strategic Initiatives team at Farmers Insurance and served on staff at Nationwide Insurance.
Jimmy currently serves as Chair of the Future Disruptions Committee for the Collision Industry Conference, and Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Committee for CIECA, and served 7 years as an Advisory Board Member for Towing and Storage for the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Member of the Board of Trustees for the Collision Repair Education Foundation, and as a Mentor for the military veterans served by the Disabled American Veterans Patriot Boot Camp.
Jimmy served 13 years in the US Army- a combat veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He was the Distinguished Military Graduate of the JFK School of Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, NC, Graduate of the US Armor Officers School at Ft. Knox, KY, and Graduate of the Infantry School, at Ft. Benning, GA.