SEATTLE,  Wash. – Zonar announced today that Ian McKerlich is its new president and CEO. 

McKerlich, who had been serving as president at Zonar, succeeds Brett Brinton in the CEO role as part of a planned leadership transition resulting from the majority investment stake in Zonar by Continental AG.  Brinton remains with the organization as a strategic advisor.

“The entire team at Zonar is focused on continued innovation and modernization of connected intelligence solutions for commercial transportation so that we meet fleets’ evolving safety, efficiency and compliance needs,” said Ian McKerlich, president and CEO at Zonar. “With an expanding leadership team and support from Continental AG, we’ve dramatically improved our ability to do just that.”

Zonar also announced that it has promoted Larry Jordan to senior v.p. of product management. In his new role, Jordan will be responsible for managing all Zonar products across their lifecycle. 

Arun Jacob has also been appointed as vice-president of software and Chad Maglaque as vice-president of program and partner management.

 “Adding experienced leaders such as Chad and Arun will improve our ability to quickly deliver Zonar products to customers and work with partners and application developers to make sure we meet all of their fleet management technology needs,” McKerlich said.