Rod Ricciardi - A Successful Career

Rod Ricciardi is an automotive industry professional who has worked at dealerships all across the country. He has developed an impressive and consistent track record to leading dealerships to record sales levels, profits, and market share.

"I am particularly strong in quickly assessing talent, systems and procedures to drive dramatic improvements in sales and customer service," Rod Ricciardi says. During the course of his career he has held General Manager positions at Chrysler, Mitsubishi and Ford dealerships, where he has successfully turned around under-performing operations.

Among his numerous achievements at automotive dealerships, he has taken a last-place dealership in the Los Angeles area and turned it into the area's #1 Chrysler Dodge Jeep and RAM store. He took a failing Dodge store and improved its average unit sales by a whopping four hundred percent. "I also built a dealership from the ground up and, within thirty days, earned the Top Sales position in the Birmingham [Alabama] district and held it for two years."

All of this success drew Rod Ricciardi a lot of attention within the industry, and in 2013 he was courted by California Superstores Van Nuys to become the Director of Operations at Van Nuys Chrysler Dodge Jeep & RAM, and Fiat of Van Nuys, a position he accepted and remains in.

With all of his success, Rod Ricciardi has learned that it is important to give back to the community that has provided him with so much. He established the nonprofit Find A Dream organization to provide mentoring and guidance to young people at risk, and give them a healthy place to build self-esteem and scholastic levels with after-school study areas, computer labs, and martial arts and boxing programs.