Timothy Corcoran

Executive Director

Tim Corcoran has served as the New Motor Vehicle Board’s Executive Director since February 2018.

From the age of eighteen, Tim has worked professionally in the automotive sector, beginning with his employment as an automotive technician at a new car dealership in 1997 while attending his local community college’s automotive trade school program. He was promoted to lead a team of technicians in his third year at the dealership.

In 2000, he joined the Bureau of Automotive Repair as a Program Representative (investigator) at the Bureau’s Sacramento Field Office. As a Consumer Protection Operations investigator, his work was focused primarily on investigating allegations of fraud in automotive repair transactions, and he also served as a complaint mediator in instances where violations of law were not alleged, but disagreements arose between the consumer and the repair facility. During Tim’s extensive time at the Bureau, he served also as a specialist in Consumer Protection Operations headquarters, a field office supervisor, the Program Manager over the Bureau’s case management office, Program Manager of the Bureau’s Consumer Assistance Program for repairing or retiring high polluter vehicles, Program Manager of the Enforcement Operations Branch, and as a Deputy Chief of the Bureau.

From 2014 to 2017, Tim served as the Chief of Occupational Licensing at the Department of Motor Vehicles, where he was charged with the licensing and regulatory oversight of twenty automotive industry related programs, including new and used car dealers, and automobile manufacturers, distributors, and dismantlers.

During his time at the New Motor Vehicle Board, Tim has focused on preserving the Board’s well-earned reputation for providing nationally recognized, industry-leading automobile franchise dispute resolution services to an industry that contributes significantly to California’s economy, employs over 130,000 people, and serves over thirty million California motorists. Tim has identified organizational resiliency, adaptability, and stakeholder collaboration as the essential pillars to achieving his goals for the Board.