Demetrios T. Lahiri, MBA

At ANESTI Financial Services (AFS), our mission is to improve your automotive dealership by servicing your finance departments and providing quality F&I services and solutions. With our focus on service, we truly value a long-lasting, productive partnership with our clients. Our three-decade history working in the automotive industry gives us an extensive understanding of the challenges that dealers experience daily and allows us to bring innovative solutions. We offer complete turnkey programs, best in class products, training for success, and partnering with dealers and their personnel to ensure increased product production.

As President of the Ferrari Club of America for the DFW Chapter, I coordinate with the South Central Region and the National Ferrari Club of America for the benefit of the Ferrari Owners and Ferrari Club of America Members, leading the Chapter in Ferrari Rallies, Ferrari Charities, and Ferrari Social Events.

Investor at AutoTrainer by Anomaly Labs, Inc.

Investor at Garages of America.

Closed new business and increased growth for Assurant Dealer Services. Closed largest Dealership Groups that AFAS does business with. Maximize sales and profits for our Dealer Clients and for AFAS. Manage Regional Sales Managers and Dealership Development Managers to do the same. Performance was consistently the top-rated performance over the other Vice Presidents in the country. Lead the nation in the specific areas of Sales, Profits, and Growth, according to our objective internal Effectiveness Analysis, DEA. Top Per Vehicle Retail (PVR) profits in the country. Top Products Per Deal (PPD) in the country. Top VSC, GAP, and Ancillary penetrations in the country. Awarded Vice-President of the Year / Manager of the Year, multiple years.

Closed new business and increase growth for AFAS, nationwide, through sales and development. Oversaw and directed all other Vice-Presidents of Sales, Regional Sales Managers, Dealership Development Managers and FI University. Maximized sales and profits for our Dealer Clients and for AFAS. Achieved all time sales volume records in MasterTech VSC production, MasterTech Maintenance production, GAP production, and Ancillary production during my tenure. Achieved a 69% increase in VSC production, 35% increase in GAP production, 25% increase in Ancillary production, and a 107% increase in Maintenance production, the highest increases of any National Vice President of Sales in the history of AFAS before or since. These double and triple-digit increases were during a period where SARS only increased 7%.

Closed new business and increased growth for AFAS. Maximized sales and profits for our Dealer Clients and for AFAS. Managed Regional Sales Managers and Dealership Development Managers to do the same. The Division under my supervision was consistently the top-rated Division, Overall, in addition to in the specific areas of Sales, Profits, and Expenses according to our objective Divisional Effective Analysis, every year that the report has existed. My direct reports won multiples of the following: Rookie of the Year, District Manager President’s Council, District Manager President’s Cabinet, Training Manager of the Year, runner up for Agent of the Year and Agent of the Year, every year that I had my position. Awarded Manager of the Year in 2006, 2008, 2009, and Vice-President of the Year every year that award was given from 2010 through 2012, inclusive, as well as Training Manager of the Year in 2010. Top income producing Division for AFAS, Inc. Wrote “The AFAS Way,” the guiding principles adopted by the President / Owner / CEO, Arden Hetland, as the direction for the company, later adopted by Assurant to become The Assurant Way. Promoted to National Vice-President of Sales in January 2014.

Closed new business and increased growth for AFAS. Maximized sales and profits for our Dealer Clients and for AFAS. Managed Dealership Development Managers to do the same. Increased NIBT by 80% per year, an all time record, and was awarded Manager of the Year for the entire company. Promoted to Vice-President of Sales in December 2007.

Assisted the District Development Managers and Regional Sales Managers in closing new business and increasing growth for AFAS. Maximized sales and profits for our Dealer Clients and for AFAS. Worked with Dealership Development Managers and Regional Sales Managers to improve their Client’s results and the results for their respective regions for AFAS. Promoted to Regional Sales Manager in March, 2005.

Closed Dealers on fee-based training with American Financial to maximize their profit and increase compliance. Conducted both field-level training and classroom training, nationwide. Promoted to Divisional Development Manager in April, 2002

Double major in economics and finance, minor in religious studies.