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John C. Driscoll, Jr.

SVP, Chief Brand Officer, Car and Driver, Road & Track

John C. Driscoll Jr. is Senior Vice President/Chief Brand Officer of Car and Driver and Road & Track, part of the Jumpstart Automotive Group. John has full P&L responsibility for these brands, overseeing all publishing, editorial and digital platforms as well as developing new revenue streams.

Eddie Alterman

Vice President, Editor in Chief

Eddie oversees all aspects of CAR and DRIVER's content, both in print and digital. Alterman's long experience with automotive media include stints as founder/editor-in-chief of online enthusiast website www.motivemag.com; founder/editor-in-chief of MPH Magazine; senior editor at Automobile Magazine; and contributor to the New York Times and Men's Journal.

Mark Gillies

Executive Editor

Mark was born in the United Kingdom and educated at Reading School and St. Catharine’s College in Cambridge. He started out working for Classic and Sportscar magazine in England in 1983 before moving to Autocar as a features editor in 1985.

Steve Spence

Managing Editor

Steve Spence joined CAR and DRIVER as Managing Editor in August 1990. Prior to his journalism career, Steve was a restaurant owner and chef. He has also worked for nine newspapers, including the Sacramento Union, Los Angeles Times, and Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Jeffrey Dworin

Art Director

Jeffrey joined CAR and DRIVER in 1989 after a 5 year stint with AutoWeek magazine. He is currently the magazine’s Art Director and also serves as staff photographer. He graduated from Detroit's College for Creative Studies, where he studied graphic design and photography.

Mike Dushane

Executive Editor - CarandDriver.com

Mike Dushane joins CAR and DRIVER from Automobile Magazine, where he was a contributor from 2000 to 2004 and online editor from 2004 to 2006. From 1996 to 2004, Mike had chief operating responsibilities at ArabHorse.com, the largest online Arabian Horse marketing firm.

Patrick Bedard

Editor-at-Large

Patrick Bedard received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Master of Automotive Engineering from the Chrysler Institute of Engineering. He worked as a Development Engineer at Chrysler Corporation for five years before joining CAR and DRIVER as Technical Editor in 1967.

John Phillips III

Editor-At-Large

John Phillips graduated from Ohio State University and Oxford University. He has written for car magazines since 1974 and has also contributed stories to Sports Illustrated, Conde Nast Traveler, Elle, Harper’s, the Toronto Globe & Mail, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. For almost eight years he was Executive Editor at CAR and DRIVER and before that was a Senior Editor at Automobile.

Barry Winfield

Editor-At-Large

After graduating from Roosevelt High School in Johannesburg, South Africa, Barry spent a year in the army as a military policeman. After the army, Barry has worked at Thomson’s Publications, Turret Press, Pulse Publications', BIKE magazine, S.A. Auto, and Scope. Thereafter, he helped found Drive, a twice-monthly tabloid-sized automotive newspaper.

Tony Swan

Old Boy Racer

Currently serving as Executive Editor of CAR and DRIVER, Tony Swan is a veteran of over thirty years in wheels-related enterprises, including advertising and public relations activities, as well as automotive journalism. The Minneapolis native has held staff positions with AutoWeek, Sports Car Graphic, Motor Trend, Cycle World, and Popular Mechanics magazines, and also contributes new car reviews to the Detroit Free Press newspaper.

Aaron Robinson

Technical Editor

Growing up near Detroit, Aaron belongs to the one family in town that has absolutely nothing to do with cars, and is thus certain he was adopted. Classmates at the University of Michigan, where he slithered through with a liberal arts degree in 1991 having completed perhaps 30 percent of the required reading, helped him land a brief job as a car-washer for Automobile magazine which ended soon after he sent a memo to magazine founder David E. Davis Jr. with a few driving tips.

Dave VanderWerp

Technical Editor

As Technical Editor at CAR and DRIVER, Dave VanderWerp is responsible for the majority of performance testing at the home office, as well as writing vehicle reviews and compiling specification tables. VanderWerp is a techie by trade, graduating from the University of Michigan in 2001 with a Mechanical Engineering degree.

Tony Quiroga

Associate Editor

Tony is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he studied enough engineering that his English degree is a Bachelor of Science rather than a Bachelor of Arts sheepskin. Tony also has two years of pre-med studies under his belt. Tony possesses a burning curiosity for all things automotive, and his knowledge of older BMWs and Porsches verges on encyclopedic.