During the 2022 annual meeting of the Automotive Sales Council (ASC), Norman Young was inducted as the new president of the association.
Membership in the Automotive Sales Council, founded in 1958, is limited to no more than 100 individuals who are key marketing executives of manufacturers in the automotive service Industry. Members of the Council gather as a roundtable discussion group during the year.
An active industry volunteer, Young has served the industry as an AASA/OAC Board member and as a member of the Automotive Sales Council Executive Committee, making valuable industry connections and learning through the experiences of other automotive and business professionals he worked with, as industry volunteers along the way.
While supporting the industry as a volunteer, his “day jobs” have included serving as vice president of sales and global service for Delphi; President & CEO of ThyseenKrupp Crankshaft and president/CEO of Weld Racing, a producer of forged wheels and other high-performance accessories. Currently, he is the director at GT Technologies.
With undergrad degrees in Automotive Sciences and Automotive Management from Ferris State University and an MBA from Northwood’s DeVos Business School, the Canada-born executive said he feels that his time spent interacting with the many industry and economic presenters at Automotive Sales Council meetings greatly strengthens his business knowledge.
Finding great value in the relationships built by networking with the members of the Council and realizing that the real value of being selected to join the Council in 2014 lies in the knowledge gained by interacting with the other 99 executive members attending the association meetings.
Young and his wife Denise reside in Olathe, Kansas.
