WARREN, MI — MSX International, Inc. (MSXI), a global outsourcer of business services, engineering and human capital services to the automotive industry, announced that Peter Leger has joined the company as president and chief executive officer (CEO).
Leger, 55, will also serve as a member of MSXI’s board of directors. He replaces previous president and CEO Robert Netolicka who will remain with the company in an advisory role until his retirement in early 2007.
Leger has more than 20 years of experience in developing and launching business process outsourcing (BPO) services and software solutions in the global automotive industry and to other vertical markets. Most recently, he was CEO of VinPlus LLC, a leading data management and software solutions provider to the automotive industry.
Before that he served as CEO of NAT, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions to the automotive aftermarket and financial services sector including state-of-the art back-office warranty administration solutions. While there, he restructured the company’s business model, and rapidly expanded NAT’s suite of software solutions which resulted in the
sale of NAT to DealerTrack in May 2005. Prior to joining NAT, Leger was CEO of Credit Management Solutions Inc. (CMSI), the innovator in online credit
and automotive loan processing, bridging auto dealers and the supply channel of captive OEM and third-party financial institutions. Key accomplishments included patenting and launching Credit Connection, which is now a part of DealerTrack, to the automotive retail sector in North America.
Leger also served as the president of ADP Dealer Services, where he led the company through a six-year period of rapid, profitable growth worldwide. He was instrumental in expanding ADP’s business model to include eCommerce solutions, professional and consulting services including the acquisition of Sandy Corp., and data management solutions. This effort included integrating more than 20 acquisitions into the company including geographical expansion into Europe, Latin America and Asia. Under his leadership, ADP also developed and launched AutoConnect, one of the industry’s early used car buying portals. Today AutoConnect has evolved and expanded into the industry-leading automotive portal, AutoTrader.com, under Cox Communications.
He also held CEO and board member positions with APAC Customer Services, a BPO provider of CRM solutions to multi verticals, and Reuters Trading Room Systems, the industry leader of software and system integration solutions to global financial services companies in North America, Europe, and Asia. Leger currently sits on the Board of Outsourcing
Solutions Inc (OSI), the leading global provider of outsourced solutions for accounts receivable management.
Leger received his M.B.A. from Concordia University and his C.A. and BCommerce from McGill University in Montreal.
For more information about MSX International Inc., go to: http://www.msxi.com.
