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Holman

Nick Irion (Head of PE); Russell Stong

Why meet them

Live brand consolidation: Holman is retiring ARIZA and moving its website, digital properties and materials onto Holman, the same work as a multi-brand unification.

What to say

"You've been building out Holman's PE effort since leaving L2. Are you after platforms alongside the fleet business, or more integrations like ARIZA?"

Check first

ARIZA migration sits with Holman corporate, so ask Nick for an intro. PE team role not confirmed.

Research notes

Took full ownership of ARIZA (Mexico), Sep 2026; ARIZA brand retired • Irion is building Holman PE (joined ~Jan 2025 from L2)

Why the opener works

It shows we know about the ARIZA move without assuming he owns it, and it opens his PE thesis, which is where future add-ons (and their sites/CRMs) will come from.

Tech stack deep diveScanned 14 Oct 2026
All accounts →
CRMSalesforce
Marketing automationPardot + Drift
FragmentationModerate
PropertyCRMMarketing automationCMS / commerceSales & intent toolsEmail & workplace
holman.comSalesforce (via Pardot)Pardot account 74722 (go.); Drift (DNS); SendGridWordPress on CloudflareDemandbase, The Trade Desk; PostClick landing pagesMicrosoft 365, Proofpoint

What it tells us

  • A deliberate Salesforce + Pardot + Drift stack, with landing pages on a separate PostClick domain.
  • With ARIZA being folded into Holman, the work is migration and Pardot hygiene rather than a new platform.

Acquisitions and their stacks

Holman unified seven divisions under one brand in 2022. Its 2024 dealership deals, Leith and Land Rover Lynnwood, still run their own dealer sites and vendors.

Acquired companyDealWebsite todayCRM / marketingWeb platformIntegration
Land Rover LynnwoodApr 2024landroverlynnwood.comRoadster (digital retail)Dealer platform (blocks scanners)Own stack
Leith Automotive GroupMar 2024leithcars.com3 Birds Marketing (news.); ProofpointDealer platform (blocks scanners)Own stack
ARI (rebranded, not acquired)Mar 2022arifleet.com → holman.comHolman stackRedirects to HolmanFolded in
St. Louis MotorcarsMar 2020Holman Motorcars siteHolman stackHolman MotorcarsOn parent stack

◆ AI signal: Anthropic or OpenAI domain verification found in DNS, usually a sign of an enterprise Claude or ChatGPT rollout.

Wappalyzer.com cross-check

  • holman.com Confirmed Pardot confirmed; adds Demandbase (ABM), Stripe payments, Getsitecontrol and The Trade Desk ads. Drift no longer on the site (still verified in DNS).

How we scanned: each site was rendered in a headless browser (homepage plus up to three inner pages) and matched against the open-source Wappalyzer fingerprint set (7,600+ technologies), then cross-checked with public DNS: mail servers, SPF senders, domain-verification records and marketing subdomains (go., info., email.). Account IDs (HubSpot portal, Pardot, Klaviyo) show whether brands share one instance. Every account was also checked on Wappalyzer.com. Acquisitions come from press releases, SEC filings and trade press; each acquired company's own domain was put through the same scan. Back-office CRMs are mostly inferred from DNS, so treat "inferred" as strong evidence, not proof.