Background
Marc Skirvin is a co-founder of Cash Auto Salvage and serves as its President. He started the company in 2014 in Rochester, New York alongside co-founder Joe Sebastian Jr., with a deliberately narrow goal: pay sellers a fair number for end-of-life vehicles, tow them for free, and not waste anyone’s time doing it.
He brings 12 years of experience in the auto-recycling industry. At Cash Auto Salvage he leads the growth side of the business — the strategic partnerships and the seller-acquisition work that keeps a free-pickup model viable in all 50 states without an in-house tow fleet. Over 12+ years the company has purchased 42,000+ vehicles.
What he writes about
Marc is the named author on the long-form guides across this site — the pricing breakdowns, the condition and paperwork walkthroughs, and the buyer-vetting material. The byline is not decorative: it means a real, identifiable person with direct operating experience in this industry is accountable for the accuracy of what’s published, and the content is written from an internal purchase ledger rather than rephrased from competitors.
The numbers in those guides — average payouts, the highest-value parts, how condition and region move an offer — come from real transaction data, not industry hearsay. When a figure can’t be backed by the ledger, it doesn’t go in.