Phil Villegas, Head of Dealerships Consultancy

Automotive Dealerships Division | Tel: (305) 373-5500 Ext. 2292

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Email: pvillegas@mbafcpa.com

Phil Villegas

Industry
  • Automotive Dealerships

Practice
  • Accounting
  • Audit
  • Business Consulting
  • Litigation Support
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Consulting

 
Phil Villegas is Head of Dealerships Consultancy at Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLP, providing consulting services to the firm’s more than 180 dealership clients. Phil has been in the retail automotive industry since 1994. Phil has managed and performed hundreds of dealership operational field visits, focusing on areas such as due diligence, buy/sells, internal controls, financial viability, fraud, special finance, and systems integration.
 
Phil’s specialty is consulting with automotive dealership clients regarding expansion. Whether it is optimizing operations, evaluating M&A opportunities, determining organizational structure, creating financial forecasts, assisting in raising capital or tackling manufacturer related issues, Phil’s in-depth experience and knowledge provides a valued resource to our clients of every size and complexity.
 
Phil also serves as a valuable resource to MBAF’s Litigation Support department, assisting in numerous cases regarding business valuation matters, lost profits, calculation of business damages, franchise rights, wrongful employee discharge and purported fraud.          

His hands-on working knowledge of dealership operations and accounting serves as a valuable resource to MBAF clients, allowing him to not only identify issues, but also to suggest solutions.  In addition, Phil has been a speaker at the NADA and NAMAD conventions, Phil also writes a monthly column for the prestigious Ward’s Dealer Business and is a guest columnist with Professional Auto News, F&I Management Magazine, Dealer Marketing Magazine and has been featured in Automotive News,  AutoExec and DealersEdge.

Professionally, Phil has “grown-up” in the dealership environment.  The son of a car mechanic and repair shop owner, Phil knows first hand the value of hard work, customer satisfaction, delivering value and entrepreneurship. Following a tour of duty in Desert Storm with the United States Marine Corps, Phil started working as a file clerk in a dealership while attending the University of South Florida.
 
Through his rapid advancement, his role grew to include responsibility for the internal control environment of more than 30 dealerships with the nation’s largest automotive retailer,  AutoNation.  While at the Northwest District, he was a key part in taking the market platform from worst to first in overall performance. For the past 6 years, Phil has been an integral component of MBAF’s Auto Dealerships Division’s growth.
 
Professional Affiliations
  • National Automobile Dealers Association
  • National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers

Seminars and Lectures

  • Alliance of Ford Motor Minority Dealers, Miami, FL, 2005, What’s Your Plan? Road Map for Developing an Effective Business Plan
  • American International Automobile Dealers Association, Washington, DC, 2005, Dealer Defined - How emerging changes in the automotive retail culture will redefine the way dealers do business in the future
  • National of Minority Automobile Dealers, San Diego, CA, 2008, "Buy/Sells - Essentials in Creating your Own Opportunity"
  • National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, Baltimore, MD, 2006, "Secrets of the Trade: Covering the Essentials on Getting your Next Deal"
  • National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, Baltimore, MD, 2006, "Long-term Viability is Key: How to Perform Due Diligence When Assessing a Dealership Opportunity"
  • National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, Baltimore, MD, 2005, Elements of Successful Dealers
  • National Independent Automobile Dealers Association, Atlanta, GA, 2005, Jump Start! A Dealer’s Guide to Taking their Dealership to the Next Level
  • National Automobile Dealers Association, New Orleans, LA, 2005, What’s Your Destination? A Road Map for Dealership Expansion
  • Florida Minority Community Reinvestment Coalition, Orlando, FL, 2004, Back to Basics: Business Skills Training to Effectively Operate your Organization
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