PLANTATION, FL, Sept. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LMP Automotive Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:LMPX) (the "Company" or “LMP”), an e-commerce and facilities-based platform for consumers who desire to buy, sell, subscribe for or finance pre-owned and new automobiles, today announced the appointment of former Braman Automotive Chief Finance Officer Evan Bernstein as its Chief Financial Officer.
“On behalf of LMP and its Board of Directors, I would like to welcome Evan Bernstein to the LMP team” began Sam Tawfik, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Evan is joining us at a key moment during our active, dealership-group acquisition and integration strategy. His industry leading experience overseeing and managing the performance of 23 multi-state franchises generating billions of dollars in annual revenues during his career adds incredible value to LMP as we execute upon our aggressive rollup strategy. In addition, his operational expertise will help us deploy our industry-leading practices during our planned next-wave of prospective acquisitions and our e-commerce home delivery, site-to-store, and ship-from-store delivery roll-out for our customers”, Tawfik concluded.
"I am honored and enthused to be joining LMP. This elite, pioneering, game-changing company and management team with their flexible and well-structured acquisition and e-commerce model is the opportunity I have been seeking for some time. I am looking forward to helping lead LMP to its next phase of growth.”
said Bernstein, LMP’s newly appointed Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Bernstein’s qualifications span 15 years of automotive industry and 5 years of public accounting experience. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Bernstein was an auditor at Morrison, Brown, Argiz, and Farra, and a senior auditor at Crowe Horwath from 2004 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Bernstein served as Assistant Controller at the Braman Organization, rising to Controller from 2008 to 2009, Senior Controller from 2009 to 2015 and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Braman Automotive Dealerships Miami from 2015 to 2019, a role in which he was responsible for 23 franchises generating approximately $2 billion in annual revenue.
Mr. Bernstein is a CPA and has a master’s degree in taxation from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Science-Accounting from Florida State University.
LMP believes Mr. Bernstein’s high-level of automotive dealership and public accounting experience will bring significant operational and financial expertise to the company as we pursue our aggressive rollup strategy.
ABOUT LMP AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGS, INC. – “BUY, SUBSCRIBE, SELL AND REPEAT.”
LMP Automotive Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LMPX) describes its business model as “Buy, Subscribe, Sell and Repeat.” This means that we “Buy” pre-owned automobiles primarily through auctions or directly from other automobile dealers, and new automobiles from manufacturers and manufacturer distributors at fleet rates. We “Subscribe” the automobiles to our customers by allowing them to enter into our subscription plan for automobiles in which customers have use of an automobile for a minimum of thirty (30) days. LMP’s all-inclusive vehicle subscription membership includes monthly swaps and covers insurance, maintenance and upkeep. It offers the flexibility to upgrade your vehicle to a more premium model or downgrade for a lesser cost model when you like. We “Sell” our inventory, including automobiles previously included in our rental and subscription programs, to customers as well, and then we “Repeat” the whole process.
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