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VINMonitor is a service supported by National Vehicle Services, Inc. (NVS), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation.  NVS is devoted to fighting auto-related financial crime through education, the fostering of public-private information exchange partnerships, and the creation and implementation of innovative new information services. NVS is tax exempt under IRS 501(c)(4).

NVS creates innovative information services such as VINMonitor to protect the insurance industry from loss due to vehicle theft, fraud, illegal exports, retitling, lien sales, and other hazards impacting vehicle insurers.

The officers and directors of NVS come from careers in law enforcement, insurance, and information science. NVS brings unparalleled expertise to the problem of fighting losses arising from auto insurance crime.  In 2009 the FBI recognized NVS's significant contribution to fighting auto-related financial crime with an Award of Appreciation for NVS's efforts in assisting the Department of Justice and the FBI in the furtherance of the National Motor Vehicle Titling Information System (NMVTIS).

The founder and chief executive officer of NVS, James S. "Jim" Spiller, began his career with the Indiana State Police, serving as a trooper for 10 years. Jim then worked as a special agent in the National Automobile Theft Bureau of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). In his almost 20-year career at NICB, Jim worked his way up through the ranks, ultimately serving as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of NICB.  Jim is an internationally recognized expert in fighting losses from auto insurance crime.  Jim served two separate terms as chairman of the North American Export Committee.  In 2010, NVS was selected as an organization to sit on the NMVTIS Federal Advisory Panel.   Jim currently serves as NVS's representative on that federal advisory panel.  Jim understands that insurers need cost-effective solutions to prevent and mitigate losses and believes that using NVS's cost-effective VinMonitor service will significantly reduce insurers' losses from auto-related financial crimes.

NVS's advisor and distinguished board member Rolland R. Smith began his career in the Information Services division of the Illinois State Police in the 1960s, at the dawn of the use of computer technology to fight auto-related financial crimes.  Rolland moved to the National Auto Theft Bureau and then to the Information Services division of NICB, rising to the rank of vice president of information services of NICB.  After retirement from NICB in 1999, Rolland served as president of Locator Technologies LLC, an innovator in fighting auto-related financial crime impacting the vehicle finance industry.  Rolland currently serves as president and chief executive officer of CFG, a company founded by Rolland in 2008, to continue his life-long involvement in fighting auto-related financial crime.  Like Jim, Rolland is an internationally recognized expert in fighting losses from auto insurance crime.  In his more than 40-year career, Rolland actively served on numerous committees of the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and of the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS).  Rolland was an original member of the North American Export Committee when it was formed in 1996 and served one term as the committee's chairman.  Rolland concurs with Jim that NVS's cost-effective VinMonitor service will significantly reduce insurers' losses from auto-related financial crimes.