Austin Ligon was CEO and founder of Circuit City spin off CarMax after he was director of corporate planning for Marriott.
He joined Marriott in 1984 as director of corporate planning, and served as vice president of both marketing and concept general management in the family restaurant division. Ligon and Richard Sharp, then CEO of Circuit City, developed the CarMax idea together in 1991 and launched the first CarMax store in Richmond, Virginia, in 1993. He added the title of CEO upon the company's spin off from Circuit City in 2002. 
