Chip Perry
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| known_for = Online auto retail entrepreneurship
| occupation = President and chief executive officer of TrueCar, Inc.
| alma_mater = University of Virginia, Harvard Business School
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Victor A. Perry, better known as Chip Perry, is the former founding president and CEO of AutoTrader.com from 1997 to 2013. {{ cite web | title = Impact report 2015 - 2016 | publisher = Harvard Business School | url = https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/Documents/giving/2016_HBS_Fund_Investors_Society_Impact_Report.pdf }}{{ cite web | title = TrueCar Execs Face Investor Suit Over Partner Site Reboot | author = | publisher = LAW360 | date = 2019-04-02 | url = https://www.law360.com/articles/1145551/truecar-execs-face-investor-suit-over-partner-site-reboot }}{{ cite web | title = TrueCar CEO Chip Perry is retiring; Darrow named interim leader | author = David Muller | publisher = Automotive News | date = 2019-06-03 | url = https://www.autonews.com/executives/truecar-ceo-chip-perry-retiring-darrow-named-interim-leader }}
Education
Perry holds a degree in Civil Engineering from University of Virginia, and earned an MBA, in 1980, from Harvard Business School.
Career
In 1997, Perry was the first employee of AutoTrader.com, and was CEO until 2013. In that time, AutoTrader became the largest third-party vehicle shopping website, with over $1.5 billion in annual revenue.{{cite news | title = TrueCar Names Chip Perry as Its New CEO | author = Jeff Bennett | work=The Wall Street Journal | date = 2015-11-23 | url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/truecar-names-chip-perry-as-its-new-ceo-1448297383 }} As CEO, Perry oversaw a series of acquisitions at AutoTrader, including Kelley Blue Book, VinSolutions, {{proper name|vAuto}} and HomeNet Automotive, companies that are now part of the Cox Automotive group. Before joining AutoTrader, Perry worked in Los Angeles for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and at the business development arm of the Los Angeles Times. After leaving AutoTrader in 2013, Perry was president and CEO of RentPath.{{ cite web | title = Chip Perry, TrueCar's new CEO, seeks to rebuild dealers' trust | author = David Undercoffler | publisher = Automotive News | date = 2015-11-23 | url = http://www.autonews.com/article/20151123/OEM02/151129953/chip-perry-truecars-new-ceo-seeks-to-rebuild-dealers-trust/ }}
Perry joined TrueCar as CEO on December 15, 2015, and resigned May 31, 2019.
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Category:Harvard Business School alumni
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