The Presidio Group, an independent banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions, capital and investments in the automotive retail sector, has named Bloomberg Intelligence senior automotive analyst Kevin Tynan as its new director of research.

The company said he’ll be responsible for market insights, content creation and client engagement focused on the U.S. franchised dealer network and automotive technology segments.

Tynan comes on board with 25 years of experience as an automotive investment analyst, beginning on Wall Street in 2000. He was the No. 2 ranked automobile manufacturing sector analyst by Forbes/StarMine in 2004 and 2005 and was named the top stock picker in the automobile parts supplier sector by The Financial Times/StarMine in 2007.

As one of the first employees of Bloomberg Industries in 2009, he designed, built and maintained global automotive coverage for North America, Europe and Asia-based automakers, a unit that grew into Bloomberg Intelligence.

Tynan is a regular on automotive and financial television, radio and podcasts, and a popular speaker at industry events, including the NADA Show.

“Decades spent watching, researching and analyzing the auto industry have led me to the place where I can learn from and interact with the advisors orchestrating the deals, the technologists creating the products and the franchised dealers moving the metal every day,” he said.