Stephen Trowell has taken on the new role of franchise director of JLR at Marshall Group.
Last month Trowell announced he was leaving Hedin Automotive where he had been managing director for under two years.
Before that he was a market area director with Mercedes-Benz Retail Group and also served a stint as a sales director with the factory-owned dealer group.
He worked for five years as a general manager with Mercedes-Benz in Croydon.
Marshall has Jaguar and Land Rover dealerships in Cambridge, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Ipswich Leicester, Lincoln, Newbury, Oxford (Milton Gate) and Peterborough.
It also has Land Rover franchises in Bedford and Melton Mowbray.