Trak Global appoints Leon Hurst to head mobility division

Trak Global has appointed Leon Hurst to head up its growth plans in the automotive and mobility sectors.

The company said his hiring was a “a statement of intent from the Group to build a dominant position in connected car data solutions in the UK, Europe and North America”.

Trak has long-standing partnerships with global insurers, motor manufacturers, corporate fleets and daily rental companies and is the UK’s largest insurance telematics business. In late 2018, Trak Global Group acquired IMS, the third-biggest insurance telematics business in North America.

Hurst said: “Vehicle manufacturers have long acknowledged that there’s inherent value in connected car data for mobility operators and insurers, but there remains the challenge of how to effectively engage and convert the data into value adding services in adjacent markets."

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