About Us

Sara is the wife of GDL owner Dannie. She has an administration role at GDL Automotive, keeping the well oiled machine that is GDL functioning. Outside the company, her primary passion is children and is qualified as a diploma trained childcare educator. She has grown up on the Northern beaches and loves going to the beach. She is also enthusiastic about cooking, baking, reading and craft.

Tracey joins the GDL team in an advisory role. She is a cofounder of The real Business Group and is working with the management team of GDL in a strategist capacity. Bringing Tracey on board will allow the team to expand the business to reach its dreams by implementing measurable goals and a level of accountability to the management staff.

Brent joins the team as Store Manager at our Warriewood site. Brent has a long history in the automotive world, with the previous ten years spent working at Mercedes Benz G Brothers in a sales capacity. Before that, he was involved in Woolworths and BP in operational capacities. Brent brings his years of experience and wisdom to our most established site and has the goal of growing and expanding GDL further.

Harith was head hunted by our team for his decades of experience with Land Rover and Range Rover. Harith is of Iraqi descent but grew up in the Netherlands. He migrated to Australia in the early days of his career. Harith worked for the local Land Rover dealership for many years before joining our team. His extensive experience with troublesome European vehicles makes him the go to man for electrical diagnostic work. Harith plans to join the team in a managerial capacity in the coming years.

Lois joins our team after almost ten years experience with Audi. He started his trade when he was just fifteen years old. Lois was born and grew up in France. Aside from cars Lois is crazy about road bikes. He has owned a few loud bikes in the time he has worked with us. His knowledge with VW and Audi has aided the GDl team in catering our clients needs surrounding these vehicles.

Chris is a young man that we met through a client of GDL’s. He had completed his training with Volvo North Shore when we offered to take him under our wing. Chris is currently based out our Hornsby Store and has family up the central coast. Chris is currently undergoing training to take over as the store manager in the future at our Hornsby store.

Brenden joins our team after seven years at Honda. Brenden grew up in Forster he moved to Sydney to get work in the mechanical trade. Once in Sydney, he met Emma and lined up an apprenticeship at Honda. He has developed a passion for dirt bikes. Two stoke death machines are one of his great passions in life, along with cars, 4-wheel driving outback adventure type behaviour and of course his lady friend. Brenden hopes to get his foot in the property market soon, he may not yet be aware that this means he will probably have to give up the bikes in order to afford this.

Vince came for a job interview, couldn’t drive manual and was told to come back when he could. He landed six lessons in the next two weeks and proceed to hound Dannie until he gave in. Vince joins our Hornsby team as an apprentice who can now drive manual. He’s picked it up super quickly and has a sensational attitude. He does drive a Dodge Neon (we will remedy this). Vince resides on the Central Coast and uses the train to get to work… Whatever it takes to start your career.

Flynn is currently studying and working part-time for both us and business education company Business Blueprint. Flynn brings a huge hub of knowledge in regards to digital marketing, online marketing, SEO and website development. It’s his job to get digital leads. Flynn is a bit of an adventurer with a love of the outdoors and mountain bike riding getting the better of him most weekends.

Ethan currently works for GDL part-time while he finishes high school. Ethan carries out many of the yard hand duties at our Warriewood site. In the coming years, it is expected that Ethan will join the GDL team permanently. In what capacity is yet to be determined, but this young man has the potential to do great things in our company.