Kendra Rawls is Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Global Sales Operations for Polk Global Automotive. With responsibility for the team’s overall business objectives and strategic plans, Rawls leads a group of approximately 450 professionals.

She has direct oversight of Polk’s offices in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as leading the commercial activities for Polk’s offices in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, and Australia. In addition to leading Polk Global Automotive’s sales operations, Kendra is also on the Board of Directors of Polk ROADTODATA, a price and specifications company based in London.

She joined Polk in 2003 and since that time, she has served as the General Manager of Polk’s Canadian Operations, Managing Director of R. L. Polk UK, and Managing Director of Polk Marketing Systems in Germany. Throughout her professional career which spans more than 18 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience in the automotive industry, Kendra has been able to clearly envision the marketplace and readily translate customer needs into solutions.

Prior to Polk, Rawls spent 13 years in a wide variety of increasingly responsible positions within Sales and Marketing at Ford Motor Company. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Ann Arbor and an MBA from the Eli Broad College of Management, Michigan State University Advanced Management Program.