As a senior officer who worked his way up through the ranks, Don Ross has been with Enterprise Rent-A-Car for more than 40 years. Ross joined Enterprise as a young man in 1964, only seven years after the company’s founding. Today, Enterprise is the largest rental car company in North America with more than 900,000 rental and leased vehicles in addition to the Car Sales and Commercial Truck Rental business divisions. Ross has been instrumental in Enterprise’s growth from a small, regional car leasing business to North America’s largest rental car company.

Ross began his career at Enterprise as a Management Trainee and had many responsibilities from customer service to controlling inventory. In 1969, Ross was promoted to Branch Manager in one of five St. Louis locations. In 1972, he and his family moved to Kansas City and introduced Enterprise and its brand of service to the Kansas City metropolitan area. During his eight years in Kansas City, he also played an important role in the company’s nationwide expansion.