Jay M. Ferriero is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Capital Automotive Real Estate Services, (previously Nasdaq: CARS), the leading specialty finance company focused on automotive retail real estate. Mr. Ferriero joined Capital Automotive in February 1999 as the Company's Director of Acquisitions. Mr. Ferriero has spent his 43-year career bridging the Finance, Automotive and Real Estate industries and brings a unique understanding of the overlap of the three. Prior to joining Capital Automotive, from 1994 to 1999, Mr. Ferriero served as a First Vice President Loan Group and National Accounts Manager at Comerica Incorporated, a leading financial institution serving the automotive retail industry. At Comerica, Mr. Ferriero was responsible for managing the auto dealer lending offices in Florida and Illinois, and had nationwide responsibilities for managing multi-bank credit facilities for some of the largest auto consolidators. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Ferriero was Senior Vice President and Senior Lending Officer at Comerica Bank & Trust, overseeing all lending activities. Since 1980 and prior to 1991, Mr. Ferriero's experiences included managing commercial loan processing operations, restructuring problem loans, and originating commercial and auto dealership loans.