Former Hibdon government launches ‘the way forward for auto care’ in OKC

Former Hibdon government launches ‘the way forward for auto care’ in OKC
Former Hibdon government launches ‘the way forward for auto care’ in OKC

An automotive business government for a few years, Ned Aguilar jokingly refers to himself as a mad scientist: a scientist due to his analytical method to assessing and addressing issues, and a mad one as a result of he is aware of what he suggests as options usually problem standard knowledge within the auto service business.

“I’m all the time fascinated about how we’re capable of change the area,” Aguilar stated. “Like in the rest, you need to depart it higher than you discovered it. So for me, I’m massive on attempting to establish methods to enhance the shopper expertise. That’s all the time been the guideline for me.” 

Aguilar’s popularity stems from a long time of expertise for main tire manufacturing firms, an business he’s labored in for the reason that age of 17. From the late Eighties via the Nineties, he was a part of the administration group chargeable for increasing Oklahoma Metropolis’s Hibdon Tire Heart into one of many largest unbiased sellers within the U.S. By the 2000s, when Hibdon had been acquired by Bridgestone Tires, Aguilar would maintain a number of government roles on the company over time, together with vice chairman of selling and of digital improvement. 

Now, as he enters a brand new chapter in his life and in his profession, he is bringing a brand new kind of customer-centric mannequin to Oklahoma’s car business. Aguilar is banking on his expertise with Hibdon Tires, which disrupted the business as soon as, to do the identical factor once more.

“Ray Hibdon, the patriarch, and his son, Mark Hibdon, had been actually forward of their time when it got here to the shopper supply course of and the best way we leveraged know-how, even then,” Aguilar stated. “We felt we had been capable of construct a company that, once we look again it, might have been the perfect enterprise in our sector of the business, as a result of we had been prepared to do something and the whole lot if it was going to be constructive for the shopper and for the workforce.”