Twenty years in dealerships, from the platform floor to the division office.

I'm Kyle Egge, East Division President at Ciocca Automotive, where I oversee dealership operations across a portfolio of stores spanning Pennsylvania and New Jersey. My background is in the day-to-day mechanics of running dealerships well — fixed operations, variable operations, and the leadership pipeline that keeps a multi-rooftop group performing consistently as it grows.

I started in this industry the way most operators do: on the floor, learning the business store by store rather than from a textbook. Over two decades with Ciocca Automotive, I moved from platform management into regional and now divisional leadership, working across brands including Subaru, Chevrolet, Buick GMC, Mercedes-Benz, and others in a portfolio that today spans more than two dozen stores.

Ciocca Automotive itself has grown from a single dealership into one of the larger family-owned dealer groups in the Mid-Atlantic. Being part of that growth — helping build the operating standards and management bench that let a group scale without losing what makes individual stores good — has shaped how I think about this business.

How I Think About the Work

Dealership performance is rarely about one big lever. It's inventory discipline, technician efficiency, advisor training, pay plan structure, and a general manager who understands all of it well enough to make good calls without waiting for direction. My focus has always been building that operating discipline at scale — replicable across stores and brands, not dependent on any single person being a hero.

I hold a Bachelor of Science from Miami University and am based in the Greater Philadelphia area, where I live with my family.

"The fundamentals of great dealerships haven't changed. Strong operators who understand the business at a granular level still win."

Outside of work, I spend time on the ski slopes with my family and I'm slowly working through a boat dock project at home — proof that the same hands-on, figure-it-out approach that works on a service drive works just as well on a Saturday afternoon project.