Mazda New Zealand managing director 
Andrew Clearwater has been elected president of the Motor Industry Association, replacing retired BMW NZ boss Mark Gilbert.
Clearwater was elected at the association’s annual general meeting, held last week.
Clearwater has had 33 years’ experience in the New Zealand automotive industry, with the last 20 years at Mazda where took over as managing director in 2006. He is also chairman of the Mazda Foundation, a charitable organisation that donates around $200,000 annually towards community projects.
Clearwater is also the MIA representative on the Motor Industry Training Organisation (MITO) board.
He will oversee an interesting time for the association – the transition from long-standing chief executive Perry Kerr to incoming chief David Crawford.
Appointed as joint vice presidents were 
John Manley, managing director of Nissan New Zealand, and Glynn Tulloch, group general manager of European Motor Distributors.
Manley has gained extensive knowledge of the auto industry in a career spanning more than 30 years with Nissan, covering a wide range of sales and marketing functions, from managing Nissan’s highest award winning dealership through to his current position.
Tulloch, upon leaving university worked at Honda New Zealand Limited for approximately six years in marketing and product roles. In early 1986 he became sales and marketing manager of European Motor Distributors, at that time the importers of Audi and Volkswagen. In the following 17 years he has held various roles with the company including Audi general manager.
In his current role he oversees the marques of Skoda, Volkswagen and Audi.
