Daniel Govaer

As Executive Vice President of Product, Daniel is the person we trust to translate what’s actually happening in dealerships into software that drives real decisions. With 20+ years of hands-on retail leadership, from AutoNation to Mercedes-Benz, where he more than doubled a decade’s worth of historical net profit in five years, Daniel doesn’t advise from the outside. He’s run stores, rebuilt them, and made them profitable.

At VINCUE, he operates at the intersection of dealership reality and product execution, leading how the platform evolves across acquisition, appraisal, recon, and retail. He works daily with macroeconomic signals, interest rate shifts, inventory velocity, acquisition cost compression, and OEM incentive structures, translating them into intelligence dealers can act on right now. Innovation doesn’t happen in theory, it happens in the store. Daniel’s role is to shorten the distance between the two.