About Us

Jon P. Ferrando heads RV Retailer as CEO and President. Prior to this, from 1996 Jon served in several positions at AutoNation before retiring in 2017. His roles included Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

Prior to joining AutoNation, Mr. Ferrando was a corporate and securities attorney with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Chicago, Illinois. A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mr. Ferrando graduated from the University of Michigan in 1988 with a B.A. in Economics and from Harvard Law School in 1991.

John F. Rizzo Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since January 2018. John was instrumental in building AutoNation Inc., America’s largest automotive retailer, from a startup to $20-plus billion in revenue. John was with AutoNation for four years, serving in executive management roles in corporate development and industry relations.John holds a Masters of Professional Accounting from The University of Miami.

Raul Rodriguez joined in 2018 as Senior Vice President Corporate Development. Raul is the chief growth officer responsible for leading the company’s mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and greenfield development efforts, including strategy, business development, valuation, negotiation, due diligence, integration and closing activities. Previously, Raul served as Vice President Corporate Development at AutoNation.

Chris Glenn is a seasoned automotive executive with significant experience in service, parts and technology.  Chris most recently served as a managing partner and COO at Motormindz, where he worked with leading service, parts and digital retail technology solutions in the automotive sector.  Prior to that, Chris held various management roles for 15 years at AutoNation, including as Vice President of Service.

Famous P. Rhodes currently serves as corporate vice president, chief marketing and technical officer of RV Retailer, LLC, in such role since November 2019. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Rhodes was executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Bluegreen Vacations Corporation, a vacation ownership company, from August 2017 to September 2019, vice president of digital marketing and customer experience for AutoNation, Inc., an automotive retailer, from 2015 to 2017, and vice president of eCommerce for AutoNation, Inc. from 2012 to 2015.

Taylore Elliott is Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for RV Retailer since 2019 where she manages over 1,300 employees, nationally. Focused on talent development and succession planning to ensure the company’s continued growth strategy. Taylore’s experience includes over 15 years of human resources leadership roles at, AutoNation, the largest automotive retailer in the United States.

John Buono is Vice President Real Estate and Construction. John manages real estate searches for continued growth and also heads up facility maintenance programs, and design and construction standards for all of RV Retailers existing locations.

Director of Business Development and a founding member the of RV Retailer team. Pat is responsible for identifying and sourcing dealership acquisitions, market opportunities and working closely with manufacturers. Prior to joining in 2018 Pat was running his own company, Pat Paul Associates, a national automotive M&A advisory firm from 2004-2018. From 1997- 2004 as one of the founding members of the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, Pat helped build AutoNation from an unknown start-up, to one of the largest automotive retailers in the country.

Donny O’Banion is President of our Motor Home Specialist division in Texas and joined in 2018 when RVR acquired MHS. With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Donny works with manufacturers to help guide product designs and price points for the motorized segment of our industry and is responsible for all aspects of the MHS business. Prior to joining RVR, Donny was CEO of MHS.

Don Strollo serves as the East Region President since he joined in 2018. He is responsible for overseeing 11 dealerships located in the Eastern Region. Prior to that Don was President and CEO of RV One Superstores, the world’s 5^th largest RV retailer from 2000-2018. (acquired by RV Retailer in 2018).

Brad Leach, joined in 2019 as President of our Tom’s Camperland division overseeing and directly participating in the operations of 3 locations in Arizona. Brad is actively engaged in strategic decisions and planning and expansion in the West as we continue to grow our company.

Larry Hall is currently the President of RVR’s Texas towable brands, Explore USA and Camper Clinic.  These locations represent many popular brands like Airstream as well as other brands from Thor and many of the high-quality brands from Forest River, as well as full representation Grand Design, and VanLeigh products.  Prior to joining RV Retailer, Larry was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Field Operations for Premier Trailer Leasing, a national provider of commercial equipment to the transportation industry.  Prior to his experience in commercial trucking, Larry spent many years with the Ford Motor Company in the various marketing and sales roles around the country, supporting Ford’s retail dealer network.  Larry has a bachelors degree in Marketing from Oakland University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Jim Humble President of Cousins RV and joined RVR in 2020. Jim will be overseeing the Colorado operations at our 3 locations and looking to grow the RVR family of dealerships in the western region of the country. Jim has been in the RV industry for over 28 years all in Colorado and has worked in every position within a dealership with most recent prior position as the founder/owner of Cousins RV before being acquired by RVR in 2020.