Infiniti has strengthened its fleet team ahead of the launch of the Infiniti Q30 this autumn by recruiting Miles Cooke and Mark Sheedy.

Cooke has previously worked as a business development manager with fleet management firms Ogilvie, Arval and Lombard.

Sheedy has 13 years of sales experience and dealer-based fleet experience having spent the past severn years with Benfield Motor Group.

In the roles of area fleet managers with a specific emphasis to help grow Infiniti's national fleet business. Cooke and Sheedy will be identifying and developing the fleet strategy by looking after leasing, B2B and SME opportunities, whilst working closely with UK Infiniti dealerships.

Both will work within the Infiniti UK structure, at the Rickmansworth HQ, under country manager Carl Bayliss.

Bayliss said: “As the production facility in Sunderland starts to gear up to manufacture the first Infiniti to be built in Europe, the Q30, we are now building the UK team to grow the business accordingly.

"It’s an exciting time for Infiniti and our support for both private & business users remain our number one priority.”

Both Cooke and Sheedy have taken up their new roles with immediate effect.