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Mark Jenkins has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2014. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Jenkins was a professor in the finance department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2014, where his teaching and research focused on consumer and corporate credit markets. While at Wharton, Mr. Jenkins was responsible for teaching courses in the undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs on corporate restructuring, corporate credit, and leveraged finance. Prior to his time at Wharton, Mr. Jenkins worked at the Brattle Group from 2001 to 2004, an economic consulting firm, where he focused on corporate valuation and demand forecasting in technology markets. Mr. Jenkins received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and a B.S.E. from Duke University in mathematics and civil engineering.

Benjamin Huston co-founded Carvana and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since our inception in 2012. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Huston co-founded Looterang, a card-linking platform that enabled personalized deals to be automatically administered through consumer credit or debit cards, in 2011. Mr. Huston was CEO of Looterang from 2011 to 2012. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Huston served as an associate at Latham and Watkins LLP, a full-service global law firm, where he focused on regulatory affairs. Mr. Huston holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in American studies from Stanford University.

Daniel Gill has served as our Chief Product Officer since March 2015, overseeing all technology functions, as well as strategic partnerships for the business. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Gill spent his career in both enterprise software and consumer internet businesses. He started his career at Integration Appliance (INTA) in go to market, before he co-founded and served as CEO of Huddler from 2007 until the company's acquisition by Fandom in May of 2014. Mr. Gill holds a B.S. from Stanford University.

Michael Maroone has served on our Board since our IPO in 2017. Mr. Maroone is currently the CEO of Maroone U.S.A. LLC, a position he has held since May 2017. From August 1999 until his retirement in February 2015, Mr. Maroone served as President and Chief Operating Officer of AutoNation, Inc. Prior to joining AutoNation, Inc., Mr. Maroone was President and CEO of the Maroone Automotive Group, a privately-held automotive retail group, from 1977 to 1997. Mr. Maroone currently serves on two other boards, as chairman of the board of Cleveland Clinic Florida, a non-profit, multi-specialty academic hospital, and as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Board. In addition, he previously served on the boards of AutoNation, Inc., Salty Dot, Inc., MDH Acquisition Corp., and Cox Automotive, Inc. He holds a B.S. degree in Small Business Management from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Gregory Sullivan has served on our Board since our IPO in 2017. Mr. Sullivan is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Afar, a travel media company he co-founded in 2007. From 1995 to 2007, Mr. Sullivan served at DriveTime Automotive Group, Inc. (DriveTime) in various capacities, including as Vice Chairman from 2004 to 2007, CEO from 1999 to 2004, and president from 1995 to 2004. Mr. Sullivan earned a B.B.A. degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. The Board believes that Mr. Sullivan will continue to be a valuable member of our Board because of his senior management experience in the automotive and media industries.

Dan Quayle has served on our Board since our initial public offering (IPO) in 2017. Mr. Quayle has served the United States Federal Government in various capacities as a Congressman, Senator, and as the 44th Vice President of the United States of America from 1989 to 1993. Since 1999, Mr. Quayle has been with Cerberus Capital, a New York private investment firm. He has served as Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments, LLC since 2001. Mr. Quayle earned a B.A. degree in political science from DePauw University and a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Ira Platt has served on our Board since our IPO in 2017. Since its inception in 2009, Mr. Platt has been the president of Georgiana Ventures, LLC, a firm that provides equity and debt capital to specialty finance companies, acquires portfolios of consumer finance receivables and offers consulting services to the specialty finance industry. From May 2009 to December 2013, Mr. Platt served as the President of 221 Capital Partners, LLC, a firm that provides advisory services. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Platt was the Portfolio Manager for the Rosemont TALF Opportunity Fund, a partnership investing in asset-backed securities. In addition, Mr. Platt was a managing director and Head of the Principal & Distressed Capital Business for RBS Greenwich Capital, the domestic fixed income banking unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, from 1997 to 2009. Mr. Platt was an Executive Vice President of the Aegis Consumer Funding Group, a publicly traded non-prime automotive finance company, from 1991 to 1997. Mr. Platt earned a B.A. degree in 1985 from Emory University and an M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Mr. Platt served on DriveTime's board of directors from February 2014 until April 2017.

Neha Parikh has served on our Board since April 2019. Ms. Parikh is a global technology leader who most recently served as CEO of Waze Mobile, Ltd., a navigation map application company and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., a role she held from June 2021 to July 2023. Prior to Waze, from August 2017 to November 2019, Ms. Parikh was the President of Hotwire, Inc., a travel company and a subsidiary of Expedia Group, Inc. She started with Expedia Group in 2008 with Hotels.com, L.P., where she amassed experience in roles across the business, including product development, marketing, pricing, and strategy. Prior to her role with Hotwire, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Brands and Retail for Hotels.com, driving marketing activities, overseeing the global P&L and operations, and leading merchandising, business development, and partnerships globally. Before joining Hotels.com, Ms. Parikh worked in consumer insight and demand strategy consulting with The Cambridge Group where she led projects across a variety of retailers, and at Dade Behring, Inc. (a Siemens healthcare company), where she held progressive levels of responsibility in marketing and product development. Ms. Parikh previously served on the board of directors of Tailwind Acquisition Corp. Ms. Parikh holds a bachelors of business degree from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Paul Breaux has served as our Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary since August 2015. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Breaux practiced law at the Houston, Texas office of the firm Andrews Kurth LLP (now Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP) from 2008 to 2015. While at Andrews Kurth, Mr. Breaux's representative experience encompassed a broad range of general business transactions matters. Mr. Breaux holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.B.A. in finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

Ryan Keeton co-founded Carvana and has served as our Chief Brand Officer since our inception in 2012. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Keeton was a principal at the Montero Group, a strategic consultancy firm, from 2010 to 2012, where he advised global public and private companies on strategic and business initiatives. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Keeton served as Director of Strategic Marketing for George P. Johnson, a global marketing agency. Mr. Keeton holds a B.A. in English and American literature and language from Harvard University.

Tom Taira has served as President, Special Projects since October 2018. Prior to joining Carvana, Mr. Taira was the co-founder and CEO of Propel AI, which was acquired by Carvana in 2018. In 2005, Mr. Taira co-founded TrueCar, Inc. and from 2005 until 2018 he served in various roles at TrueCar, Inc. including Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and President. From 2009 to 2010, Mr. Taira co-founded and served as CEO of Honk LLC, an automotive social media website, which was acquired by TrueCar. He has also been a director and founding team member at various automotive startups, including Model E, a vehicle subscription service, and Build-to-Order, a new American automotive manufacturer. Mr. Taira began his automotive career at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. where he served as eBusiness Strategy Manager. Mr. Taira holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

Ernest C. Garcia, III co-founded Carvana and has served as our President and CEO since our inception in 2012. Mr. Garcia is also Chairman of the Board. Prior to founding Carvana, Mr. Garcia held various roles at DriveTime from January 2007 to January 2013. From November 2009 until January 2013, he served as Vice President and Treasurer and Director of Quantitative Analytics. As Director of Quantitative Analytics, Mr. Garcia was responsible for the firm's ongoing development of consumer credit scoring models, and its utilization of those tools in retail-vehicle-sales deal structuring and vehicle-price optimization. He was a managing director of corporate finance from December 2008 to November 2009, and from January 2007 to December 2008, he served as a financial strategist. Prior to DriveTime, Mr. Garcia was an associate in the Principal Transactions Group at RBS Greenwich Capital from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on consumer-credit-based investments. Mr. Garcia holds a B.S. in management science and engineering from Stanford University.

On July 24, 2019, the Board of Directors of Carvana Co. appointed Stephen Palmer, as the Company's Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Palmer has served as the Company's Vice President of Accounting and Finance since May 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Palmer served as a Vice President of Finance at Symantec Corporation from February 2017 until January 2019. Prior to working for Symantec Corporation, Mr. Palmer was the Vice President of Accounting at LifeLock, Inc., a publicly traded company providing identity theft protection services to consumers and consumer risk management services for enterprises, which was acquired by Symantec Corporation in February 2017. From July 2010 until February 2017, Mr. Palmer held a variety of positions within the finance organization at LifeLock, Inc. including Controller, Vice President Controller, and Vice President of Accounting. Mr. Palmer started his career in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Palmer holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Australian National University and a Master in Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Phoenix.