Fleet profile Paul Hollick


The Association of Fleet Professionals


Rachel Boagey learns why educating fleets is a labour of love for AFP chairman Paul Hollick.


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rom senior board roles within retail, OEM, leasing, fleet management and mobility and technology businesses, right through to his current role as chairman of the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP), Paul Hollick has had a diverse career. His most recent role is the result of a 2020 merger between fleet representative group ACFO and fleet training body the ICFM, where Hollick previously worked for 12 years, to create the AFP.


“I began to see a lot of people doing well out of the fleet management training courses


we offered at ICFM and improving their own positions within their organisations. After a few years of me being chairman, we merged with ACFO to create the Association of Fleet Professionals – all of us give our time freely, it’s a labour of love,” Hollick tells us. A qualified accountant by trade, he describes bringing the two organisations together under one banner as “creating the best of both worlds, merging two halves of the same equation.” The combined organisation aims to give fleet decision makers “increased voice through combined strength”, but also cater for those


Above: Most of the work the organisation is doing right now is helping fleets go electric.


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