EXECUTIVE TEAM

Charles J. Bonfiglio is a results-oriented professional with a successful background in business management and real estate development. He is an expert at leading automotive companies to high profits with extreme customer satisfaction through unparalleled team building leadership that reflects creativity with broad-based experience and a winning attitude. As a strategically driven, entrepreneurially minded visionary, Bonfiglio continuously seeks to develop new business by leveraging integrated opportunities through innovation and adding new channels of revenue streams to maximize profitability while focusing on core business improvement.

With over 25 years of developing and leading many successful business operations, Charles J. Bonfiglio is a business executive with broad experience in all aspects of business and real estate development. He has expert direct experience with the automotive parts and service industry, the franchise industry, ecommerce industry, web and software development, patents, trademarks, marketing and advertising, real estate development and financial management.

Starting in August 2006, Bonfiglio became the founder, Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Stockholder of “I Car Care,” LLC (doing business as Auto Parts Network) of Weston, FL. Auto Parts Network is the leading provider of software products and services featuring AAIA-compliant browser-based catalog management systems and a full-line distribution network of companies dedicated to serving retail consumers and car care professionals.

Bonfiglio directly oversees all business functions within the company, including the CTO, COO, and VP of Marketing, Catalog Manager, SEO Manager, SEM Manager, Web Content Manager, Online Promotions and Marketing Team. He also administers the company’s annual budget, marketing plan, and manages all aspects of the company’s product catalog and pricing. Finally, Bonfiglio also develops and maintains the company’s business relationships with manufactures, distributors and vendors.

Since September 2006 Bonfiglio also serves as Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Stockholder of “Tint World”, LLC, a privately owned franchise chain of independent retail auto appearance service centers and Film Company, a commercial window tinting business. Tint World is the industry leading window tinting and automotive accessory specialty centers and residential and commercial flat glass window tinting centers. As the lead executive of Tint World, Bonfiglio is responsible for all functions related to the direction, development, leadership and operation of the company as well as for growing the family of franchise dealers while adhering to the company’s growth budget.

Bonfiglio oversees all sales and marketing functions within the company, including active management of nine employees. Bonfiglio has consistently achieved annual growth rate companywide of more than 10% while maintaining or growing profit margins. He directs all aspects of planning and execution of performance and manages all aspects of planning, designing and executing the company’s annual product catalog. Finally, Bonfiglio administers the company’s annual marketing plan that includes creative art and advertisements in assorted direct mail pieces and internet marketing services. Tint World is the Industry leading window tinting and automotive accessory specialty center franchise that started back in 1982.

In January and September of 1997, Bonfiglio became and continues to be Chief Executive Officer, President and owner of Sawgrass Auto Inc., in Sunrise, Fla. and Weston Auto Inc., in Weston, Fla. Both are two of the largest franchised locations of the Meineke Car Care Centers. As the lead executive of these companies, Bonfiglio is responsible for daily operations of business, developing budgets and sales forecasts, bookkeeping, customer relations, employee development, troubleshooting, inventory control, purchasing, maintaining customer database, sales and marketing and all functions related to the development, leadership and operation of the companies. These Meineke centers are the World's Largest Meineke Car Care Centers and have been awarded the Platinum Customer Service Award Winner the last 8 Consecutive Years.

Bonfiglio has founded numerous companies in his career and has been a seed investor in several start-up entities. He has also acquired and managed several large scale real estate development projects in New York and south Florida. He also served as a business and franchise developer for the privately held Meineke Car Care Centers from June 1983 to October 2005.

As the sole owner and lead executive and developer for these numerous start-ups, Bonfiglio was responsible for targeting suitable locations; negotiating leases or property purchase and development; designing layouts, functionality and appearance of facilities; obtaining city, county, state licenses and permits; coordinating leasehold, building and property improvements; purchasing installed equipment, signage, inventory and supplies; interviewing staff and building power-player teams of employees; planning, administering, advertising and marketing; social community network and chamber of commerce involvement; and introducing innovative products and services for the following companies: Meineke Car Care Center, Lauderhill (1995 to 2002); Firestone Tire & Auto Center, Fort Lauderdale (1991 to 1996); Total Auto Concepts, Fort Lauderdale (1989 to 1995); Meineke Car Care Center, Pompano Beach (1986 to 1994); Meineke Car Care Center, Fort Lauderdale (1985 to 1996); Meineke Center, Hallandale, (1985 to 1986); and G Force Apparel Designer Wear, Brooklyn, NY (1982 to 1985). All these companies were among the top businesses in the markets they served and all were sold for a profit.

ASE Certified Technician, MACS Certified A/C Repair, Certification of Meineke Car Care Centers Franchise Development Operator, Certified Meineke Multi-Shop Management, Certified Goodyear / Gemini Car Care Centers Operator and numerous sales and professional development training programs.

Rotary Club of Weston (2001 to Present), Weston Area Chamber of Commerce (2001 to Present)Sunrise Chamber of Commerce (2001 to Present), Weston Area Business Chamber of Commerce (2003 to Present), Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce (2004 to Present)

• 2012 Tint World® Automotive Styling Center Franchise was awarded the inclusion of Inc. 500I5000 fastest growing companies in America, the second year in a row.
• 2011 Tint World® Automotive Styling Center Franchise was awarded the inclusion of Inc. 500I5000 fastest growing companies in America.
• 2006 to 2009 Meineke first and only $2 Million Shop Award for Meineke in Weston, Florida
• 2006Meineke 4th Rank of $1.5 Mil Shop Award for Meineke in Sunrise, Florida
• 2006 Meineke Top Gun Award for Meineke in Weston, Florida
• 2006Small Business Man of the Year Award – SBA and the Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce, Florida
• 2005 AAA Approved Auto Repair Center - Meineke in Sunrise, Florida
• 2005 AAA Approved Auto Repair Center - Meineke in Weston, Florida
• 2004Man of the Year Award - Weston Business Chamber Of Commerce, Florida
• 2004 Best Auto Service Award - Our City Weston Newspaper - Meineke Weston, Florida
• 2002 to 2009 Meineke Circle of Excellence Awards, Florida
• 2002 Small Business Person of the Year Award - Weston Area Chamber of Commerce, Florida
• 2002 Meineke New Shop of the year Award for Meineke in Weston, Florida
• 2000 Meineke New Shop of the year Award for Meineke in Sunrise, Florida
• 2000 Meineke Special Market Development Achievement Award, Florida
• Bonfiglio completed his education attending LaSalle Military Academy in Long Island, NY. 1981
• Membership: Rifle Team, 1st Sergeant, ROTC.

Business development, franchising, new technology, organizational development, strategic planning, corporate mergers, acquisitions and partnerships, system development, professional networking.

International travel, fine dining, reading business and history inspirational books, cool cars, hustle dancing, body building, running, things that are creative by design.

Daniel Hofmann is an outstanding business development strategist enabling intense, forward growth of corporations. He can effectively analyze all requirements for planning, drafting and executing business plans to meet or surpass key performance indicators. Hofmann is a corporate strategist and a marketing and SEO leader who creates and translates business requirements into information technology initiatives.

With over 10 years of being instrumental in developing and managing leading internet retailers through initiatives across multiple teams, either in-house or outsourced and following various software development methodologies, Hofmann is a unique specialist in his field. He specializes in systems architecture of advanced computer applications and relational and object oriented database systems -- while being adept at system administration and project management in a wide variety of paradigms.

In January 2009 Daniel Hofmann was appointed Chief Technical Officer and Stockholder of Auto Parts Network. Today he oversees all aspects of the company -- software development, catalog development, marketing, ecommerce strategy and forging relationships with new vendors and other parties, while maintaining existings ones. His tenure at APN includes:

• Explicit Business Roles:
  • Managing of employees and daily operation of the company's various departments
  • High level strategic planning for growth and creation/aquisition of new revenue streams
  • Software system design and development for engineering the company's ecommerce software
  • Financial planning and reporting of expenses and income
  • Creating, deploying, and managing marketing initiatives and campaigns
• Explicit Engineering Roles:
  • Engineering Complex, Modular, Scalable Software Systems
  • Integration of 3rd Party Systems into existing software to seamlessly extend the current system while preventing code re-write
  • Creating Cutting Edge Algorithms to Automatate Key Business Processes
  • Designing Extremely difficult database, full text index, and other data store schemas and implementing them with sub second response times for analysis of hundreds of millions of records of data
  • Engineering Distributed Computing and Map Reduce solutions to cut processing time of intensive time consuming algorithms and data queries

Hofmann’s prior position was project manager, senior business analyst and software engineer of application development for US Auto Parts from February 2007 to December 2008. He maintained projects from All OEM Parts Inc and worked with the VP of Corporate Strategy, VP of Marketing, CIO and COO on growing business by increasing distribution through international shipping and new sales channels such as business-to-business and used auto parts.

In addition, he oversaw the management of backend and web-based projects and architected and developed internal business and web applications by designing and writing specifications for software systems. He managed the implementation of said systems across multiple development teams, following the entire software development methodology.

Hofmann was the software engineer and development manager for All OEM Parts Inc. / The Parts Bin in the retail industry from November 2003 to February 2007. He was one of the key players who created the infrastructure that operated the company, which enabled it to be purchased by US Auto Parts. He also created and served as lead architect and engineer for the Unified Database System -- a Unified Catalog (a 3-tier application based on MVC) that powered all of the company's 300+ e-commerce websites, while also providing tools to effectively manage all of the companies data. These tools served as an importation system for complete catalog creation, updating and management. Hofmann sees automation of key business processes as being crucial to the companies profitablity and competative edge, and developed a corporate managemtn system which allowed all departments to work together in one system, while proving C-Level Executives complete overview. Finally, Hofmann designed and implemented the company's largest websites, such as autopartswarehouse.com, while focusing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and e-commerce integration.

From September 2001 to July 2003, Daniel Hofmann was a software engineer of privately held Charles Jones LLC, a company in the information services industry with 200+ employees. The main focus of the business was to provide title search services to customers through various databases of legal and property information. To support this process, Hofmann migrated crucial data from various file formats into live production systems.

He researched and laid out the groundwork for the current web service/J2EE platform, analyzing different network protocols and software topologies such as Java Enterprise Beans and integration with web services using SOAP, XML, RMI, and application platforms such as JBoss, Oracle OC4J and Apache software projects. Further projects in J2EE dealt with Enterprise Java Beans to communicate with back-end systems and front-end web services implementing the MVC design paradigm. Working alongside fellow engineers, Hofmann’s research fostered live production systems. Other projects included using XML to create business-to-business interfaces that plugged into current systems which enabled them to seamlessly delegate orders from CJXpress, the online ordering system, to third party companies.

Prior to joining Charles Jones LLC, Dan Hofmann worked as a software engineer from January to August 2001 at privately held Global Data Integration Inc., a small company in the financial services industry. Daniel Hofmann created programs in C++ to process data feeds for importation into GDI’s web-based financial system. He built a scheduler system to download feeds from various sources and invoke the previously built parser system for feeds from the Internet -- back when many banks weren't even connected over the Internet.

To put the product in its finishing stages, final work concentrated on creating an extensive help system across the whole application and financial data exportation functionality using Microsoft ASP, SQL Server and JavaScript/HTML. The system communicated with Citibank and operated by using dynamically linked libraries in VC++ to parse proprietary financial documents for import into highly normalized database systems.

From February 1999 to November 2000, Daniel Hofmann worked as a software engineer at Base Ten Systems Inc., a public company in the computer software industry with over 1000 employees. Base Ten has a suite of software for engineering and manufacturing execution and clinical trial software. In order to support its large client base, Dan redesigned and implemented a new customer support system integrated with bug tracking that was audited and certified by corporations such as Johnson and Johnson and Merck Pharmaceuticals. Hofmann worked to add functionality and repair problems with Base Ten’s flagship product, ME|CS, fixing flaws such as mathematical errors involving drug calculations and architectural and structural issues.

Hofmann created various tools that helped automate the software development process, including a program to manage the multilingual features of Base Ten’s products, which were used in countries around the world. Y2K issues were abundant in all of Base Ten’s products, and only two months after being assigned the task of repairing all Y2K related issues, the internal testing department verified the correctness and completeness of his work.

A key players as Lead Designer and Programmer in creating an entire ecommerce infrastructure that ran a company to over 100m in sales.

NJ Delta Phi Kappa Psi

Hofmann completed his education at the College of New Jersey earning his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, from 1999 to 2003. He worked on the WHAT project, a technology that attempts to build a semantic web search engine created using machine-learning technologies such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and genetic algorithms.

Software Development, Marketing and Strategy, Technology and Aerospace, Creating New Business Enterprises.

Strength training, kettlebell, running, surfing, traveling, creating new things, exploring robotics and aerospace technology

Ronald Soto is a driven professional in the Automotive Aftermarket industry with strong integrity and values that lead to long-lasting relationships. He is self-motivated with excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively at all levels of organizations from senior management to front line employees and a strong internal drive to achieve organizational goals. Exceptional customer relationship building skills with focused dedication to provide sales teams with guidance, support, and the motivation to exceed organizational sales expectations and goals.

With a strong record of accomplishment building and managing operations, he is recognized for establishing processes, building relationships, negotiating contracts and increasing sales in new and highly competitive markets.

In August 2006 Ronald Soto became the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice-President and Stockholder of “I Car Care”, LLC d/b/a Auto Parts Network, of Boca Raton, FL, starting August 2006. Auto Parts Network is the leading provider of software products and services featuring AAIA-compliant browser-based catalog management systems and a full line distribution network of companies dedicated to serving Retail Consumers and Car Care Professionals.

Soto directly oversees and manages all vendor relations within the company, including large dealer groups, manufactures and distributors. He also plays a big roll with many industry and legislative organizations that leverage relationships and partnership opportunities.

Ronald Soto is also currently the Executive Director at Meineke Dealers Association and Managing Director of the Meineke Dealers Purchasing Co-Op, a purchasing Co-operative that was created for the benefit of improving the buying power of the Meineke Car Care Centers Franchisees retail auto repair and service centers, since September 2004.

Soto is the former owner of a several Meineke Car Care Center franchised locations from 1982 to 2002 in the Philadelphia market for nearly twenty years and managed 25 of the top locations in the Meineke chain. During that time as a Meineke Franchisee, Soto was elected and served 2 years as the Meineke Dealers Association President and over was appointed and served 7 years on the Meineke Dealers Purchasing Cooperative, Inc. Board and Product committee.

Soto founded numerous companies in his career, has been a seed investor in several start-up entities and has also acquired and managed several real estate development projects in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Pennsylvania State Inspection Licensed, Formerly ASE Certified

2009 – Present Coalition of Franchisee Associations (CFA) Vice Chairman

• Meineke Dealers Association -MDA 2003 Achievement Award for his years of dedicated service and support.
• Delco Manning - Chapter of Trout Unlimited Sporting Gentlemen Award as Vice President, presented by the Delco – Manning Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
• American Association of Franchisees and Dealers AAFD – 2007 Trailblazer Award
• Cabrini College- Bachelors, graduated Alpha Sigma Lambda

Automotive Management, Motor Vehicle Aftermarket, Franchisee Associations, Industry Association Legislation, Coop Management, National Account Warehouse Relations

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