Ponte Vedra Auto Show 17
Ponte Vedra Recorder · September 10, 2015
Judges
Continued from 16
Ken Perry — Perry is currently at IT
project manager at Landstar System Inc.
Perry owns a 2003 Boxster S and is on
the board of PCA. Perry currently serves
as chief judge at the Festival of Speed,
and this is Perry’s second year judging
with the Ponte Vedra Auto Show.
Mike Ross — Ross holds a mechanical engineering degree from
General Motors Institute and attended
the Harvard Business School. As an
executive with GM from the late 50s
to the late 90s, Ross was the head of
the Fisher Body Division Operations,
which consisted of 28 plants and
100,000 employees. In the 80s, Ross
moved to Europe to become the head
of Passenger Car Europe (Opel and
Vauxhall) Operations, whose volume
at the time was 1.6 million units and
100,000 employees. Ross returned to
the United States to head up Truck
Group Operations, launching the
Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon before retiring. Ross and his wife, Janet,
live on the Intracoastal Waterway in
Ponte Vedra Beach, and is famous for
wining car of the year in 1984 with
the Opel Kadett.
Mark Sellers — Sellers moved to
St. Johns County from Atlanta, GA, in
August 2014. One of his first events
in Florida was last year’s Ponte Vedra
Auto Show! After the move, Sellers
transferred his Porsche Club of America
regional affiliation from the Peachstate
Region in Atlanta to the Florida Crown
Region. At the first FCR social he attended, Sellers met Bill Hughes. “As Bill
and I got acquainted, the subject of my
concours involvement came up,” Sellers said. “Bill told me, ‘We’re going to
put you to work next year.’” Sellers has
been a member of the Porsche Club of
America for 20 years, is a former Concours Chairman of Atlanta’s Peachstate
Region and is a longtime participant in
Porsche Concours events. Sellers has
been a PCA judge at the regional level
for many years, and received his Parade
Judging certification (PCA National
level) in 2010. Over that time, Sellers
has owned five Porsches. One of his
prior cars was the highest scoring at the
PCA’s Savannah Parade event in 2011,
and Sellers has been Peachstate’s annual
overall champion five times (2001, 2004,
2011, 2012 and 2013). Sellers has also
been invited to participate in the Hilton
Head Motoring Festival for the last two
years and the Amelia Island Concours
Cars & Coffee event in 2014 with his
current Porsche, a 911 Turbo.
Dan Scanlan — A 28-year resident of Jacksonville, Dan Scanlan has
worked in local television and radio,
handled election campaign advertising
accounts for a circuit court judge and
Photo by Glen Hettinger
Pictured are the judges from the 2014 Ponte Vedra Auto Show. New this year on the judging panel is Mark Sellers (not pictured).
a clerk of court race and opened a local comedy club before coming to the
Florida Times-Union 20 years ago. He
is married with one son, and is active
in church and community activities.
Scanlan is the main contributor to the
Wheels section of the Jacksonville TU.
1999 12 Who Care in the Jacksonville
Community, and he is the recipient
of the 2001 Frank W. Sherman Award
presented by the Rotary Club of South
Jacksonville for exemplary community
service.
— Compiled by Kelly H. McDermott
AJ Tasker — Tasker is an attorney
at law specializing in criminal DUI.
Tasker owns a 5.0 Mustang, the
eleventh Mustang that he has owned.
Tasker is a member of the First Coast
Modified Mustang Club and has been
judging with the Ponte Vedra Auto
Show for the past 5 years.
Bill Warner — Bill Warner is
founder of The Amelia Concours
d’Elegance, chairman of the Amelia Foundation and also serves as
president of his own business, H. C