April Morris is the Sponsorship & Communications Manager of The Peninsula Hotels Signature Events, organizers of renowned motoring events The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering and The Quail Motorcycle Gathering hosted annually at Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, California. 

Allison Harding is the new Chief Operating Officer of Vintage Air. For the past three years, she has worked as a manufacturing engineer before transitioning into Special Projects Manager, where she focused on product development and design. She has a background in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. 

Recently appointed as the Marketing Director at Kahn Media, Rebecca Nguyen leads the marketing and project management efforts that drive top-tier results to their network and clients.  Nguyen found her passion for automobiles through motorsports photography in 2012 and has provided media coverage for various media outlets, motorsports series and automotive events.  

Michele Roe is the Owner and creative force at Stabin Cabin Airbrushing.  For over 10 years she’s been designing and creating custom designs and paintings her creative designs on everything from motorcycles to aircraft, gumball machines to skateboards, automobiles, and even toilet seats! 

Sophia Tsingos-Freehling, her friends call her Sofi, owns and operates GT-MOTO. Sofi and GT-Moto is also committed to supporting the fight for a cure for cancer, and is proud to donate a portion of all profits to support cancer research and those who have been affected.

Lyn St. James is named one of the “Top 100 Female Athletes of the Century” by Sports Illustrated. She has set 21 national and international speed records and competed in the Indianapolis 500, taking Rookie of the Year honors in 1992. She competed in 15 IndyCar races, 7 Indy 500s, twice at the 24 Hours of Le mans with victories at the IMSA Series at Watkins Glen, Road America, Daytona, and Sebring. 

Courtney Ferrante is the Director of The Peninsula Hotels Signature Events, organizers of renowned motoring events The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering and The Quail Motorcycle hosted annually at Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, California. Today, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering is widely regarded as one of the most preeminent motoring events in the world. 

Emily Reeves and her husband Aaron produce and host their Flying Sparks Garage YouTube page. From building cars to flying airplanes they share their automotive filled lives with their loyal followers. They honeymooned on the Hot Rod Power Tour in 2007, a week-long road trip with thousands of hot rods. 

Jaime Hjelm is the co-owner along with her sister Naomi of their automotive repair shop they call Wicked Wrench Company. She owns a fleet of taxis and is a taxi meter dealer, mother to twin 16 year old boys and competed on Motor Trends ‘Bitchin Boot Camp’ by Bitchin Rides, season 1 in 2020 with her brother Frank. 

Melanie White is the president of Hellwig Products. Founded in 1946, Hellwig Products manufactures forged steel suspension products for a variety of vehicles including recreational vehicles, trucks, and SUVs and is an OE supplier for Oshkosh, Freightliner, and the United States military. 

Laura Fisher is the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Archivist.  As the archivist for the Petersen Automotive Museum, Laura describes her job as, “taking care of everything that is not a car” and acts as a conservator, librarian, archivist, and special collections caretaker for the Museum. 

McKinlee Riley followed her dad around his auto shop for years, begging to be taught. What began as a love of cars and dirt bikes, has evolved into education, competition, and a real love for absolutely anything that moves with a motor. 

Brandee Sanders is the Vice President of Marketing at Modal, a company that provides e-commerce to the world’s leading automotive dealers and brands. She is an award-winning marketing technologist leading global digital, data science, analytics, and demand-gen teams from start-up and rapid growth to IPO.

Christina Lam is a racer, an engineer, and co-owner of the Hi-Speed Motorsports race team. She now competes in the SCCA Majors and Hoosier Super Tour in the Touring 1 class in her M3 and a Honda HPD TCA Civic Si factory race car.   

Izzy Wright is the future of women in automotive tech. She was born and raised in San Diego, California and recently graduated high school where she was elected to be the ambassador for the Automotive Tech career pathway. Having to finishing school in the middle of a pandemic, Izzy had a strong desire to utilize my skills and get back under the hood of a car. 

Joan Klatil Creamer became General Motors first female ‘Exterior Designer” for Production Cadillac and Advanced Buick after graduating from Cleveland Institute of Art in Industrial Design. Her next career move was with General Electric in Consumer Electronics, Appliances, and Wiring. She then started her own freelance business in product design.

Emily Morris is a Product Development Engineer working in the Bay Area. Over the last fourteen years, she has worked in the Aerospace, Automotive, and Medical Device industry as a Manufacturing Engineer. 

Rachel Meyer started racing, with her sister Megan, when she was just 8 years old. She raced Jr Dragsters for about 10 years then moved up into a super comp dragster and eventually the Top Alcohol Dragster ranks.  She clinched her first championship win in 2020 as the NHRA Central Regional Championship. 

Lisa Boggs is the Director of Motorsports at Bridgestone Americas Motorsports. She joined Bridgestone in 2013 bringing 20 years of motorsports experience including advertising, integrated communications, on and off-track activation, content development, and crisis management. 

Todd Sommerville is the Vice President of OEM Relationships at Modal, a company that provides e-commerce to the world’s leading automotive dealers and brands. He is responsible for driving strategy, business development, partnership, and new-label sales efforts for OEM and Alliance relationships on behalf of the company’s leading automotive e-commerce platform. 

Chester Allen is a lifelong journalist and the executive editor of Linkage magazine and the linkagemag.com website. He spent more than 20 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and columnist before transitioning to magazines when he joined Sports Car Market where he was their executive editor from 2010 to 2020. 

Donald Osborne is the Chief Executive Officer at Audrain in Newport, Rhode Island where he oversees the Audrain Automobile Museum, Audrain’s Newport Concours d’Elegance & Motor Week, and Linkage, a quarterly automotive publication and website. With their tagline “Geared for the Automotive Life” Linkage is all about the automotive marketplace, driving, restoration, collecting, events, and discovering the passion for vehicles. 

Tim Mathews is the Curator of Transportation, Motorsports, and Automobilia at Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed. 

Lee Klancher is the Founder and Publisher of Octane Press, an award-winning book publishing company that specializes in books about motorsports and machines. His career encompasses more than 30 years of publishing great stories. 

 In 2016, Danny Thompson drove his father Mickey Thompson's Challenger II to break the existing naturally aspirated streamliner record with a combined speed of 406.769mph. Then in 2018 he drove the restored 50-year-old vehicle to a blistering two-way AA/FS record of 448.757mph, a mark that stands to this day.

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Bud Brutsman is the CEO of Brentwood Communications International known as BCII TV. He is an entrepreneur, producer, military buff, off-road racer, and author.  He started producing television in 1992 and has produced over 60 TV shows and commercial projects.

Steve Sudler is the Director of Marketing and Motorsport for Foreign Cars Italia, the Official Ferrari Dealer for the Carolina’s. There he oversees advertising, client experiences, brand events, partnerships, and their Championship winning Ferrari Challenge Racing team with Riley Motorsports. 

Larry Dixon is a legend in the sport of drag racing and a three-time NHRA Camping World Series Top Fuel champion in 2002, 2003 and 2010. The second-generation Top Fuel racer is the second winningest Top Fuel driver in NHRA history with 62 wins and a Brand Ambassador for Stand 21 Race wear North America.

Carrol Jensen is Vice President of the Classic Car Club of America Museum. She is the immediate Past President of the Classic Car Club of America, known as the CCCA. She has shown cars at various concours event and she is a member of over a dozen automotive clubs and museums.

Carlos Perea is the CEO and Co-founder of Terra Vera, a newly launched agricultural technology company offering innovative solutions within the agriculture industry. He describes his company as the “Tesla of agriculture” and his passion for electric vehicles and sports cars is as strong as his enthusiasm for innovative solutions with the agriculture industry. 

Michelle Lackey Maynor is known as the Lady Track Boss and recently took over as President & Majority Owner of the NASCAR and NHRA sanctioned Alaska Raceway Park.  She spends her days making the most beautiful track in the world the best it can be for the racers, sponsors, fans, and her awesome co-workers. 

Paul Eisenstein is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of TheDetroitBureau.com, the voice of the automotive world. He is an award-winning publisher, photographer, editor and one of the world’s most widely published automotive journalists. 

Zack Brown is the Chief Executive of McLaren Racing and has overall responsibility for the business, including strategic direction, operational performance, marketing and commercial development. He leads McLaren’s direction and involvement in professional motorsport, spearheaded by the McLaren Formula 1 team. 

Michael Harley is the Executive Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at CarExpert. He is a noted automotive industry expert who has held roles at Kelley Blue Book, J.D. Power and Associates, Autoblog, AutoWeb, Autotrader, and Autobytel to name a few.

Amanda Busick is an award-winning broadcast reporter for the NHRA on FOX Sports, a pit reporter for the FIA Formula E Championship on FOX, and a live-event host & moderator for Discovery, MotorTrend, NFL on Location and more.

Ed Petersen is the CEO at Wrench and Lemon Squad, a mobile used car, pre-purchase inspection service that helps you see into the future before you hand over your hard-earned money. First Wrench was born and now Lemon Squad are disrupting the industry in very good ways.

Simon Dabadie is the Founder of DAB Motors, a French motorcycle manufacturer based in Bayonne, France. Dab Motors was created to show the boldest minds that you can still push the boundaries in today’s world and create a new breed of motorcycle, straight out of our fantasies. 

Charlie Nearburg is a lifelong car racer with a career that includes driving a 333SP Ferrari at Le Mans and finishing 4^th and 10^th overall at the Sebring 12-Hours.  In recent years he has focused on setting records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the “Spirit of Rett” streamliner setting set a 414 MPH FIA record with a top speed of 422 MPH.

David Saggio is a professional automotive photographer who first looked through a wide-angle lens at the age of 17. His Auto Saggio Studio offers private commissions and he produces archival, museum quality images. When he’s not behind the lens David can be found in the cockpit of his Formula Vee racing an SCCA event.

Dave Opsahl is the CEO at Actify. For more than 15 years, Actify has been the leading provider of collaboration, integration, and data visualization solutions to the automotive industry.  Actify serves a global base of more than 1,500 companies in 45 countries.

Emily Lowdermilk is an automotive technician at Northwest Motorsport in the Pacific North West. In 2016 she founded Blue Collar Babes, a community on Facebook and Instagram for women in male dominated industries. Her goal is to find more women in blue collar trades, inspiring them and bringing them together to support and empower one another. 

Louise Ann Noeth, better known as Landspeed Louise returns to Cars Yeah to share her newest book titled Bonneville Salt Flats, a history and story about land speed racers on the salt.

Jeremey Walton is a freelance journalist, editor, and author with 33 original titles to his credit.  His latest book is titled Quattro: The Race And Rally Story 1980 – 2004 and it explores 24 years of factory-prepared and factory-supported Quattros in motorsport. 

David Smith is an entrepreneur and a retired industrial designer. He Founded the Precor company and was their President for many years before selling and diving deep into classic automobile research, restoration, and concours judging. 

Keith Sturgeon is a pinstriper and lifelong car and bike enthusiast. Keith paints portraits with pinstripes. What started as a hobby has become a passion and his art is owned by enthusiasts including past Cars Yeah guest Dave Kindig, Mark Workman and Jay Leno. 

Craig Jackson is the Chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson Auction Company. Over decades he has earned the reputation as one of the world’s most respected automotive collectors and restoration experts. In addition to the numerous Barrett-Jackson Auctions, that take place across the country, Craig is an avid automotive collector and enthusiast. 

Philip Porter founded Porter Press International in 2005. It is renowned for publishing top-quality motoring books and is firmly established as a leading automotive publisher with an unrivaled team of iconic authors and professionals in the industry. 

Clive Neville is the author of the book titled The Light Car Company Rocket: The Singular Vision of Two Men, it is the full history of a fascinating machine that changed the sports car market and the brainchild of former racing driver Chris Craft and design genius Gordon Murray. 

Chris Theodore is the President of Theodore & Associates where they specialize in the automotive transportation sector. He provides strategic and project planning, product innovation and design, supplier sourcing, specialty manufacturing, mergers and acquisitions and business restructuring. 

Lou Ann Shirk has a passion for the BMW marque that goes beyond the norm. She then became the Chairperson of the newly formed BMW CCA Ladies Program committee. She is an official “Driving Diva” having attended the BMW Performance Center Driving School 12 times. 

Brian Barr is the Classic Curator of Foreign Cars Charlotte, part of the Paramount Auto Group. They source and sell a selection of vintage and classic motorcars including new motorcars from Ferrari, Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and others. 

Brad Oleshansky is the Founder and CEO of The Motor Enclave, an auto enthusiast destination destined to become the largest private garage community in the world. The Motor Enclave is currently developing projects in Tampa, FL, Columbus, OH and Nashville, TN. 

Ken Vela owns and operates Wikd Kustoms, works as an emcee, and is an auto event planner. His career included time behind the microphone as an announcer and voice actor. He restores vintage cars as a hobby and built a one-off Hot Rod Outlaw Speedster he calls Wikd 356. 

Bill Schneider is the Team Manager for Team Speedway. After joining Team Speedway, about 7 years, ago Bill progressed from engineering to managing and growing the Speedway Quality Control and Research & Development engineering department. 

Joshua Mello is the owner of K’s Kustoms Ride On’s & Rentals where they are Making Smiles for Miles. He started modifying electric ride-on’s, made a name for himself, and won trophies at car shows for his uniquely modified builds. 

Larry McClure has been a car guy since birth. He found a way to merge his love for cars into his passion for racing. He and his three brothers formed a successful partnership along with business associate Tim Morgan where they built a winning NASCAR team known as Morgan-McClure Motorsports and they won 14 NASCAR Cup races. The McClure Collection will be offered at no reserve at Mecum Kissimmee 2021 on Friday, January 7- 16. 

Lee Craft is the Monday Morning Racer. He is an avid motorsports and car culture enthusiast who from dairy farm to nitro dragsters has had an accelerated ride into the world of motorsports media. His Monday Morning Racer persona closely follows the world of professional drag racing. 

Nicholas Wyman is CEO and Founder of the IWSI Group, a global network and leading enterprise dedicated to matching job seekers with automotive careers through apprenticeships. Nicholas has set up International scholarships to help young people find careers.