PERSONAL HISTORY
Mr. McKean was born into an automotive family. His grandfather was the first automobile distributor in the State of South Dakota. His father was a Buick dealer in Sioux Falls for over thirty years. Mr. McKean started his professional automotive career with the Ford Motor Company. While at Ford, he held a wide variety of positions within manufacturing, sales and marketing, and its venture capital division, Dealer Development. His last position prior to leaving Ford was as New England Regional Manager for Dealer Development,directing the activities of as many as twenty-five Ford and Lincoln Mercury dealerships.

In 1987, he chose to leave Ford to start his own dealership in Portsmouth, NH. During its two and a half years of operation, Portsmouth Hyundai became the largest Hyundai dealer in Northern New England and a regional leader in both market penetration and customer satisfaction.

In 1990, he sold Portsmouth Hyundai in order to devote full time to Roadmaster Investments Corporation, a venture capital company formed for the purpose of acquiring and operating automobile dealerships. In 1995, Mr. McKean joined Management Performance Groups, Inc., an automotive consulting company based in Atlanta, GA. Mr. McKean founded their New England office and provided litigation support, management consulting, and “Twenty Group” services to automotive and automotive related businesses throughout the United States and Canada. While at MPG, Mr. McKean was the moderator of several groups including the Mega Dealer Group, the CFO Roundtable Group, and the Independent Lessor Study Group.

In 1999, Mr. McKean co-founded, along with the prestigious accounting firm, O’Connor & Drew, P.C., OCD Consulting, LLC. Its mission is to bring quality consulting services to its automotive clients. These services include strategic planning, business planning, merger and acquisition activity, management training and development programs, business valuations, and litigations support. Mr. McKean has presented workshops at the NADA, NACE, NADC, and the ATD national conventions as well as conducted seminars for various state automotive dealer associations. 

Mr. McKean has a degree in Finance from the University of Colorado and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of South Dakota. He is an Accredited Valuation Analyst, as Certified by the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.