Tamara Darvish, veteran auto dealership executive, said the credit union, which has a nationwide presence and more than 1.3 million members, is driving to grow from around $18 billion in assets to $75 billion within the next 10 years.
Darvish is joining Pentagon Federal Credit Union as executive vice president in charge of business development and government and community relations.
“Obviously, the auto section of it comes most naturally to me,” she said. She has for many years been the public face of DARCARS, a dealership group based in Silver Spring, Md., with 22 dealerships. It was No. 31 in the Automotive News Top 125 Dealership Groups, with retail sales of 20,577 new vehicles in 2013.
She sued her father, John Darvish Sr., and the company earlier this month he founded, after being left out of the dealership group’s ownership team. In the suit, she said her father reneged on the one-third ownership in the company that he had promised to her.
