After almost 10 years at Honda, Lee Wheeler will be leaving his post as manager, corporate operations, at the end of January 2014.

Wheeler will be taking up a global role at Santander Consumer, a division of Santander Bank.

Leon Brannan, head of cars, Honda (UK) said; “I would like to say a big thank you to Lee for all his hard work and enthusiasm over the last 10 years. He has been instrumental in successfully launching the Civic and CR-V 1.6 i-DTEC models into the fleet market since he took on the manager, corporate operations role. He will be sorely missed.”

Naturally we will be sad to see Lee go, but at the same time have to congratulate Lee on the new opportunity and wish him all the very best in the future.”

Lee Wheeler concluded "I have enjoyed my time at Honda immensely and look forward to seeing Honda's fleet success gain even more traction in 2014."

Wheeler first joined Honda in 2004 in Honda Finance Europe before joining Honda (UK), since when he has spent time as national leasing & SMR manager, manager of sales support.