Board of Directors

Sharon Faulkner has been involved in the rental industry for over 35 years. She was the President of the New York Vehicle Rental Association for many years and lobbied intensely to improve the adverse laws that affected New York operators. She has been a board member of each national car rental association for the past seven years. Sharon was most recently a Dollar and Thrifty franchise owner for over ten years located in Albany, New York. Sharon has been a featured speaker at many industry conventions and seminars. She has been the moderator for many successful car rental roundtable discussions and profit sharing meetings. She is a former founding member of the Advisory Board for Auto Rental News Magazine, where she has published a number of articles.Sharon has previously testified in the U.S. Congress to lobby for the repeal of vicarious liability that affected the car rental industry in a number of states. In 2005 vicarious liability was repealed on a federal level. Sharon and many others were instrumental in affecting this needed change for the car rental industry. In 2008 Sharon was awarded the Russell Bruno Award at the Car Rental Show for outstanding service to the car rental industry for her many years of involvement in legislative issues and education. In the nineties Sharon was the Area Manager in Upstate New York for Budget Rent A Car operating at Albany International Airport. She also opened a number of local locations for the Budget Corporation throughout Northeastern New York. She is certified as a Woman Owned Business in New York State. She was born in Albany, NY and is a graduate of Empire State College a division of the State University of New York at Albany.

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Mr. Bazan is a seasoned businessman with over 28 years of experience managing startups and blue-chip companies. His work has been mainly in the media, oil and gas, environmental and clean energy, retail, and transportation industries. Mr. Bazan has ample experience operating peer to peer and traditional, independent car rental companies, including neighborhood locations and airport facilities. Mr. Bazan has managed car rental companies in the San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Reno/Tahoe, San Jose, Dallas, Houston, and Honolulu markets. His primary focus is top level management, legal compliance, risk and decisioning, and operations.

Today Mr. Bazan is working as Auto Spot’s VP of Legal and Government Affairs. He has currently under his belt a 7-city operation with over 1,500 cars. In the political arena, Mr. Bazan has been active in lobbying in the United States, Mexico, and the European Union (Belgium), and has been featured in media in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. He has also been a member of the American Car Rental Association since 2018, and an ambassador for California and a member of the Legal and Legislative Committee since early 2019.

Paul currently serves as the Director of Airport Relations and Property Management for Fox Rent-a-Car. Paul brings extensive experience in both the car rental industry and property management. At National and Alamo RAC, Paul served as the Executive Vice President of Operations and the President of Canadian Operations. At Advantage RAC, Paul served as VP of Operations. Also, Paul worked at AIMCO, (Apartment Investment Management Company) and for KW Property Management and Consulting in both organizations he served as a Regional VP of Operations and Business Development. Paul currently lives in Orlando, FL

Steve Shur brings nearly 30 years of government and public affairs experience to Hertz as the newly created Vice President Government Affairs EV Strategy. Steve is responsible for all public policy matters related to car rentals, electric vehicles and electric vehicle infrastructure at the federal, state, and local levels. He coordinates the government affairs function with all aspects of Hertz’s business, including operations, fleet management, legal, finance, real estate, and strategy.

Prior to his current role, Steve served as the President of the Travel Technology Association, a Washington, DC-based trade association for the world’s leading online travel agents, travel management companies, global distribution systems and short-term rental platforms where he led the industry’s government affairs strategy and operations at all levels of government and internationally. In addition to leading the association, he served as the industry’s spokesperson, lobbyist, industry ambassador, and external representative in the US and internationally.

Shur spent the early days of his career in Washington, DC as a public and government affairs consultant representing companies, organizations and industries on public policy matters. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and currently resides in northern Virginia.

As Chief Americas Officer, Brenda Azúa has led the development of Green Motion International in the Americas for the last 8 years, and with the acquisition of U-Save in September 2022, now also oversees all franchise activities for U-Save, including prospecting and sales of new markets, implementation process, operational support for existing franchisees, quality assurance, as well as managing the relationship with strategic supply partners.

Prior to joining the Green Motion International team, Brenda had worked as Marketing Director for Green Motion Costa Rica, car rental company owned by Purdy Motor Group, the largest dealership in Costa Rica, managing Toyota, Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen brands.

With more than 20 years of experience on service marketing positions including Car Rental, Outsourcing and Software industries, Brenda has an extensive knowledge of business solutions for customer centricity and profitability, which has led her to develop many of the franchise manuals and best practices in use, covering topics as Revenue Management, Customer Experience and Organizational Culture.

Brenda completed her Bachelor’s degree on Communication in 1998, in Valparaíso, Chile; and her MBA with emphasis in Marketing in 2010 in Costa Rica.