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PRESIDENT AND CEO, SHEEHY AUTO STORES, FAIRFAX COUNTY
PRESIDENT AND CEO, SHEEHY AUTO STORES, FAIRFAX COUNTY
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Sheehy carries on his father’s legacy as an auto dealer, manning the largest dealership group in Virginia and No. 33 in the nation, according to Auto News’ list of Top 150 dealership groups. His late father, Vincent Sheehy III, founded Sheehy Ford in Maryland in 1965 as a suburban business near the newly built Capital Beltway.
After graduating from Dickinson College, receiving an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and working in marketing and sales for Prudential and General Mills, the younger Sheehy joined the family business in the late 1980s. He became president in 1998 and now oversees 30 dealerships. Sheehy Auto Stores is the largest retailer of Fords and Nissans in the mid-Atlantic region.
Sheehy Auto Stores and its founding family are active philanthropic donors. In January 2023, the Sheehy family donated $3.65 million to Catholic University’s Metropolitan School of Professional Studies to endow The Sheehy Family Scholarship. The company raised more than $340,000 for the American Heart Association in November 2023.
Sheehy is a trustee of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
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