Terlep, Frank

Frank has worked for more than 40 years in the automotive industry and has been at the forefront of auto and collision technologies since the mid-1980s. Frank’s first technology business was launched in 1984 with a $100,000 investment from an angel investor where Frank developed one of the first software applications for the automotive aftermarket industry. Since then, Frank has helped design, develop and launch the collision industry’s first Windows based estimating and management system, the first online parts procurement platform, the first mobile app and digital marketing platform as well as the industry’s leading remote scanning and calibration software platform. Frank is the former Chairman of CIECA (Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association), is presently the Co-Chair of CIC’s Future Disruptions Committee and CIECA’s Emerging Technologies committee and was recently announced the next chairman of the Collision Industry Conference for 2023 and a 2022 inductee to the Collision Industry’s Hall of Eagles, the industry’s Hall of Fame. Today Frank is the CEO of Auto Techcelerators, LLC, that has developed the patented Test Drive CoPilot™ (www.testdrivecopilot.com) , a new platform that will change the way test drives are performed, managed and documented forever, Calibration CoPilot™ (www.calcopilot.com) , the best way to manage and document ADAS calibrations and diagnostics and finally, ADAS CoPilot™ (www.adascopilot.com) , the industry’s best ADAS and Calibration information, knowledge and repair procedure platform.