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Pete Macinnis

Founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions™

Pete MacInnis is the Founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions™ (formerly DealerCentric Solutions), a FinTech company that has served thousands of dealerships since 2003. Under his leadership, the company has grown into a premier provider of credit, identity verification, and finance pre-desking technologies. Its vendor-neutral, API-based middleware platform is designed to enable true end-to-end connected retailing for the retail automotive industry.

With more than 40 years of experience in automotive finance and technology, Pete is widely recognized as an industry innovator and forward-thinking leader. His ability to anticipate digital trends has helped shape how dealerships approach financing and the connected retail process.

Earlier in his career, Pete co-founded Onyx Acceptance Corporation in 1993, which was later acquired by Capital One in 2005. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at WFS Financial, where he held various management positions and played a key role in growing the company from $100 million in assets to over $4 billion serviced.

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The Real Cost of Disconnected Sales

You don’t need a customer complaint to know when something’s off. A salesperson waiting on the desk. A desk manager bouncing between multiple screens and multiple systems just to find one missing detail. F&I reworking a deal that was already struc...

AI and Car Dealerships: A Closer Look at the Changes

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AI and Car Dealerships: A Closer Look at the Changes

Artificial intelligence (or AI) isn’t just a buzzword tossed around at tech conferences anymore. As adoption grows, AI in the automotive industry is becoming a real factor in day-to-day dealership operations. It’s showing up in more places than many o...