Jerry Hinton Chosen As NAAA Vice President
BOSTON, Mass.— Jerry W. Hinton has been elected vice president of the National Auto Auction Association (NAAA) for the 2014-2015 term at the organization’s 66th annual convention held in Boston, Mass., this September. He joins President Ellie A. Johnson and President-elect Mike Browning on the 2014-15 executive team of the association, which represents more than 300 member auctions and 100 associate members in North America.
As the general manager of Brasher’s Portland Auto Auction, a subsidiary of West Coast Auto Auctions, Hinton oversees an operation with annual sales of more than $140 million and a staff of 150 at a 34-acre facility in Portland, Oregon. A 28-year veteran of the wholesale auto auction industry, he has a Bachelor of Science in business and finance, an MBA and a law degree.
Before his election to NAAA’s national executive board, Hinton held the offices of director, vice president, secretary, president and board chairman of the association’s Western Chapter, then served two terms as a director on the national board. Currently, Hinton sits on NAAA’s Legislative and Membership committees.
His contributions to other professional organizations include 12 terms as membership director and four terms as zone director for the Oregon Independent Auto Dealers’ Association (OIADA), and six years on the Oregon Dealers Advisory Committee helping to pass automobile legislation.
“It is an honor to be chosen by my colleagues for this leadership role and I look forward to serving our members and our industry,” Hinton said. “Working in the auto auction world has allowed me to use my interests, education and experience in business, finance and law in a broad range of challenges. But even more importantly, an auto auction is a personal business and I enjoy the opportunity of building relationships with the wide variety of people — sellers, dealers, vendors — who make up the diverse remarketing community.”
With the disclaimer that his list of goals is “a work in progress,” Hinton outlined several items he believes will “have some pretty significant potential benefits to NAAA and its members.”
Those plans include negotiating inter-creditor agreements with the captives on purchase-money financing by the auctions to neutralize UCC positioning and a universal bond for GSA through NAAA that would reduce the per capita expense; developing a national wholesale credit bureau for dealers; providing more continuing auction education webinars; establishing a menu of discounted benefits, such as on life and disability insurance for auction employees by taking advantage of a larger applicant pool; and conducting a membership campaign to encourage new and used-car dealer state associations to join NAAA so they can share in helping to develop auction services for dealers and defining universal arbitration rules and guidelines.
Hinton is no stranger to serving a constituency. In 2012 he was elected to the municipal council of Oregon’s fourth largest city, Gresham, where he and his wife reside. Prior to that he served six years on the city’s Citizen’s Involvement and Finance committees and sat on the Urban Growth and Transportation committees for the city of Wood Village.
In addition to being active in his community and church, Hinton enjoys spending time with his son and daughter, who graduated last year from his alma mater, Brigham Young University, and indulging in one of his favorite hobbies — being a world traveler.
“Back in 1980 I went on a two-year misson for our church in the Andes Mountains of Bolivia, to a village at 14,000 feet where we lived in a mud hut without electricity or runing water,” he noted. “I learned to speak both Spanish and the native Aymara language. Despite the hardships, that experience sparked a lifelong interest in travel and exploring different cultures. It taught me how to get along with people and work well with others, which has been a more valuable lesson in my life than all the formal education I ever had.”
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