Atlanta, Ga., USA - Cox Enterprises announced that Dallas Clement has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2015.
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Most recently, Mr. Clement served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Cox Automotive, the largest automotive marketplace and leading provider of software solutions to auto dealers throughout the U.S.
He led all finance, legal, real estate, technology, strategy and corporate development functions across Cox Automotive's financial services, wholesale auctions, digital media, software-as-a-service and international businesses.
Prior to the formation of Cox Automotive, Mr. Clement served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AutoTrader Group for three years.
Before joining AutoTrader Group, he spent 20 years at Cox Communications, most recently serving as the executive vice president and chief strategy and product management officer.
In 2004, he received the National Cable Television Association Vanguard Award for Young Leadership.
He also serves on the boards of the Atlanta Beltline Partnership, Technology Association of Georgia, BitAuto, Unwired Planet and Junior Achievement of Georgia.
Mr. Clement received a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics from Harvard College and holds a Master of Science in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University.
He will succeed Doug Franklin who will retire from Cox August 1, 2015.
After an impressive 38-year career at Cox, Mr. Franklin has made the decision to retire from the only company for which he's ever worked.
He joined the Cox organization as a door-to-door circulation solicitor for Dayton Newspapers in 1977 while attending college.
He worked in various financial roles at Cox's Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun and the Longview, Texas, News-Journal before returning to Dayton Newspapers in 1986 as business manager, later being promoted to executive vice president and general manager.
In 2004, Mr. Franklin became president and chief executive officer of Cox Ohio Publishing and publisher of the Dayton Daily News, after which assuming the role of president and publisher of Cox-owned Palm Beach Newspapers in 2008.
In 2009, he became executive vice president of newspapers for Cox Media Group, in addition to being named publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later that year was named executive vice president of Cox Media Group. ■