Mark Maleitzke
Mark brings more than two decades of technology and engineering leadership experience across automotive, cloud platforms, connected services, and digital transformation. He specializes in bridging technology strategy, business objectives, and organizational execution, with deep experience in software-defined vehicles, cloud architecture, connected services, ecommerce, and building high-performing engineering organizations.
Most recently, Mark served as Vice President of Cloud & Connectivity at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, where he led an engineering organization responsible for the cloud, data, and connectivity platforms supporting millions of vehicles worldwide. His teams developed and operated critical capabilities including over-the-air software updates, vehicle activation, data processing for AI, and cloud infrastructure and services powering connected vehicle experiences.
Throughout his career, Mark has led technology modernization, innovation, and organizational transformation. He recognizes that successful technology adoption requires aligning people and technology change to business value. His experience spans automotive, retail ecommerce, supply chain, financial services, medical devices, and clinical research, providing a broad perspective on delivering complex technology in regulated, safety-critical, and high-consequence environments.
At AutoMobility Advisors, Mark brings a practitioner's perspective on the technical, organizational, and operational challenges of delivering connected vehicle solutions. He helps clients bridge strategy and execution, identify the value in technology investments, navigate organizational change, modernize engineering practices, and turn ambitious ideas into the reality of tomorrow’s vehicles.
George Ayres
Managing Director
George has spent three decades inside the automotive industry, with leadership roles at Ford Motor Company, Jaguar Cars, Verizon Telematics, IBM, and a connected-car start-up. He founded AutoMobility Advisors in 2021 to help technology companies scale into Automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, enterprise fleets, EV makers, and the wider mobility ecosystem.
Dan Teeter
Advisory Director
Dan brings more than 30 years across Ford and Nissan, where he most recently led the Connected Vehicles program for North America. He is a market intelligence expert and a practitioner of Six Sigma applied to transactional business processes, now working with AMA clients on strategy, forecasting, and connected services.
Chip Goetzinger
Solutions Director
Chip studied computer science at MIT and earned his MBA at Kellogg before co-founding and growing Nissan's connected services organization from 3 people to more than 60. He later led Product and PMO at SXM Connected Vehicle, and now helps AMA clients deliver complex connected-car programs end to end.
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