 
Maury Marks, B.Mgt., CA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Throughout his career, Maury Marks has established himself as a visionary in the automotive retail technology industry. As one of the original founders, and as the President and CEO of Quorum Information Technologies, Maury has created a company that is committed to building and providing the best dealership management system in the world.
Maury has been around automotive retailing literally all of his life. Growing up in rural Alberta, Canada, Maury worked in his family’s GM dealership. That exposure to all facets of dealership management and to the challenges dealers face from both a business and technology standpoint, has given Maury a firm basis for founding and leading Quorum.
In 1988, Maury earned a Bachelor of Management (with Distinction) from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. In 1991, he received his Chartered Accountant’s designation after articling with Deloitte and Touche in Calgary. At Deloitte and Touche, Maury first worked in the accounting practice, Later, he moved to the firm’s technology consulting practice where he worked with many different companies to select and implement technology and systems to support their business needs.
He left Deloitte and Touche in 1992 and began his own practice of technology consulting for small businesses. It was during this time that his family turned to him to find a new dealer management system for their dealership. Having thoroughly evaluated the market and its offerings, Maury concluded that the industry had largely stagnated and the idea for forming Quorum was conceived.
Maury and his partners founded Quorum in 1996. Since that time, Maury has focused the company on the development of its flagship XSELLERATOR™ DMS software.
Marilyn Bown, B.Com., CGA
Chief Financial Officer
Marilyn Bown is Chief Financial Officer of Quorum. She was appointed
to her current position in November 2011. Marilyn joined Quorum in 2008
as a corporate accountant and was promoted to Controller in 2010.
Marilyn graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a
Bachelor of Commerce degree. She obtained her Certified General
Accountant designation after articling with Belanger Clarke Follett
McGettigan, a Chartered Accounting firm located in St. John's,
Newfoundland. She credits her experience with Belanger Clarke Follett
McGettigan in helping her achieve her role at Quorum.
Marilyn joined Quorum because she liked the idea of working for a
vibrant and growing company with all its associated challenges and
opportunities. She loves the people and culture of Quorum.
Mark Allen, B.Sc., M.B.A.
Vice President Sales, Marketing & Services
Mark Allen has deep business, technical and automotive retail industry
experience and has earned a reputation as a visionary leader in the
automotive retail technologies market. Since first joining Quorum in
January 2006, Mark has contributed to the organization in several
capacities. His first priority was leading the launch of the General
Motors Integrated Dealer Management System (IDMS) program for the
company, helping to establish the relationship with GM, and preparing
Quorum to deliver the services required under the contract. Later that
year, he created and led a new department chartered with marketing,
strategic planning and enterprise account management. In the summer of
2007, Mark took on the leadership of an extensive project to help
Quorum's customers upgrade their technology platform and move to the
latest version XSELLERATOR™.
His present position of VP - Sales, Marketing and Services and Director,
Quorum Information Technologies (US), Inc. is the culmination of
progressively added responsibility over the past several years. Mark
now provides leadership for all sales, marketing, OEM and partnership
relations in addition to the Services Delivery team (implementations and
training).
Mark holds a BSBA degree with emphasis in information technology and
finance and an MBA in Marketing - both attained with high honors. He
has an extensive leadership background with large organizations such as
General Motors and Electronic Data Systems (EDS). In his senior
management roles with EDS Automotive Retail Group (ARG), he was
responsible for overall management of ARG's product and service
portfolio as well as strategic planning, technology leadership and
business development. Mark also has entrepreneurial experience as
Founder, President and CEO of Playing Field Inc., an innovative start-up
that established a new market model for application integration within
automotive retail, as well as previous endeavors such as ownership of an
independent coffee shop and a small business custom application
development boutique.
Mark is based in Quorum's Sterling Heights, Michigan office.
Dan Ichelson, B.Sc., M.B.A.
Vice President Operations & Development
Dan received a Bachelor of Science (Zoology) in 1987 and a Master of
Business Administration from the University of Calgary in 1992. Prior
to joining Quorum in 1998, he was directly involved with the development
and implementation of an in-house system for a nationally franchised
organization. Dan spent his first few years with Quorum supporting and
implementing XSELLERATOR™ in GM dealerships.
During that time he worked closely with the Development Group to analyze
and define the business requirements for change requests and new product
features.
He was instrumental in defining, building, and testing the application
used to convert dealers’ legacy data for use in XSELLERATOR™.
He also played a large QA role in testing all development output. Dan
took over management of the Development Group in 2003 and has continued
to play a key role in setting the direction for product development.
He has also managed many large development projects including GM U.S.
integration efforts and other exciting product developments. Dan was
appointed Vice President Product in November of 2006.
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