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Finbarr Joseph O'Neill

Finbarr O'Neill is an automotive industry executive who helped lead turnarounds at a number of companies. While President and CEO of Hyundai Motor America, he helped lead a turnaround of the companies fortunes, increasing sales fourfold from 1998 to 2003. O'Neill led a team that repackaged vehicles, priced to market, introduced an innovative 10 year lifetime power-train, 5 year 60,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty that led the industry. Knowing t.hat it was dealers who sold the cars, O'Neill and his team combined spend with dealer associations to increase weight, relentlessly conveyed a consistent market and worked to re-engage dealers with the franchise