 | Matteo Conti
Ba (Hons) Transportation Design Senior Lecturer and Industrial Placement Tutor
Northumbria University |
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Matteo Conti is a senior lecturer/industrial placement tutor for the BA (Hons) Transportation Design course at Northumbria University, Newcastle. This bi-lingual design academic has been creating successful industrial partnerships with prestigious consultancies for a while now. Recently appointed External Examiner at Domus Academy, for the MA course in Car Design and Mobility, his plan is to place this evolving course on the European design arena podium.
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 | Magnus Dahlhjelm
Group Manager/Creative Director, Graphic/Interaction Design
Propeller |
Magnus Dahlhjelm has more than 15 years of experience creating interactive solutions for global brands in different channels. His role at Propeller focuses on delivering groundbreaking, compelling and truly seductive interactive experiences to establish profitable ‘love connections’ between brands and the end-user. He is also responsible for evolving strategies for developing and activating brands through different interfaces and touch points.
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 | Roberto Giolito
Director
Fiat Group Automobiles |
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Roberto Giolito began his design career in 1980. Having worked on the Fiat Multipla and other innovative projects such the Fiat Ecobasic and Trepiuno, he now leads the Fiat Centro Stile for future product development. It is in this role that he worked on the new 500, which has become an instant classic.
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 | Geoff Hollington
Designer, technologist and innovator
Barron Gould Hollington |
Geoff Hollington studied product design, then interiors, at the RCA. He is a designer, innovator and commentator and has won international awards working with major international brands. He writes on design and technology, including a regular column for Interior Motives, and has given talks around the world. In the consultancy Barron Gould Hollington, Hollington and colleagues create innovative design and technology solutions for clients, underlining colouration, texture, material and process – with a focus on advanced, digital manufacturing.
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 | Peter Jansen
Director, Fiat Professional
Fiat Group Automobiles |
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After graduating from the Pforzheim University in 1991, Peter Jansen worked at Mercedes-Benz and the IDEA Institute before joining Centro Stile Fiat in 1994. He was involved in the Multipla, Doblò, Idea, and Panda. In 2004, Jansen was asked to build up the Fiat Professional Style Studio and was involved in the realisation of the new Ducato and Fiorino. Jansen was promoted to his current post in 2006.
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 | Anthony Lo
Director Advanced Design, GM Europe Design
General Motors Europe |
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Anthony Lo heads the GM Europe Advanced design organisation, responsible for all Opel, Saab and Vauxhall advanced design activities. Before joining General Motors, Lo served as chief designer at DaimlerChrysler’s Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design operation. He joined Saab Automobile October 2000 as chief designer for Advanced Design. Latest concept cars include the 2006 Opel GTC Concept, 2007 Opel Flextreme, 2008 Saab 9-4x BioPower Concept and the 2008 9x BioHybrid.
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 | Hannah Macmurray
Director
Green Car Design |
An industrial designer by training, Hannah Macmurray was a car designer at Honda and Mercedes-Benz in Tokyo. She then ran her own studio in Milan, with a focus on the automotive and industrial design sectors. Green Car Design was founded to promote green and eco-automotive design via an online news medium.
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 | Michael Miller
Chief of Design
Flotek Design Studio |
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Mike Miller has been intimately involved in the development of the Flotek process from its initial R&D phase up to its current standing as an innovative surface design tool for auto interior designers, prototyping solutions, advances in production possibilities and advanced concept development.
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 | Adriana Monk
Chief Designer
Wally Yachts |
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Adriana Monk is responsible for interior concepts and design detailing for both power boats and sailing yachts. She studied product design at the Art Center College of Design in the USA. Her career began in 1995 at Designworks/USA, a BMW subsidiary. Monk has designed for numerous luxury marques including Rolls-Royce, Lincoln, Jaguar and Land Rover.
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 | Mark Phillips
Interior Design Manager
Jaguar Cars Advanced Design Studio |
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Mark Phillips is currently leading the interior design of a forthcoming Jaguar product. His interior design for the 2001 R-Coupe concept car established Jaguar’s current design language. His work also includes the interior designs of the XK8 and XJ Concept-8 show car. Between 2001 and 2003, he led Jaguar design at Ford’s Ingeni Studio in Soho, London. Previously, Phillips worked at Rover and Lincoln in Detroit.
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 | Roberto Piatti
CEO and Managing Director
Torino Design |
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Roberto Piatti started his working career at the IDEA Institute, initially leading automotive projects and then becoming a director. In 1996 he joined the Bertone Group and was appointed MD of Stile Bertone in March 1998. He inspired advanced automotive projects such as the Filo (2001) and the Novanta (2002) and the innovative architectonic concept expressed in the Villa (2005). He founded his own company Torino Design in 2006.
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 | Michael Robinson
Founder and CEO
Crossover Creative Consortium |
Michael Robinson graduated from the University of Washington and started his design career with Ford in Michigan. In 1979 he moved to Ghia Torino in Italy, then joined Fiat in 1986. Robinson was appointed Director of Design of Lancia in 1996, and promoted to Director of Design Fiat in 2001. In 2008 he opened Crossover Creative Consortium which specialises in design and architecture.
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 | Miguel Rodrigues
CEO
Automotive City Solutions |
Miguel Rodrigues is co-founder and CEO of the Auto Museu da Maia, the largest museum of classic cars in Portugal. He is also co-founder and CEO of Retroconcept, a sports car manufacturer. ACS designs the mobility system IECO that is based on an intelligent, interactive and innovative vehicle with an electric powered engine and free of carbon emissions.
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 | Francesca Sangalli
Senior Designer, Design Research and Strategy
Mercedes-Benz Italia |
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 | Dr. Manuel Simas
Managing Director, Automotive Alliances
Microsoft Corporation |
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Manuel Simas is responsible for the leading the global automotive/industrial customers for Microsoft. He has more than three decades of experience in the automotive industry. Most recently, he was the managing director in the Worldwide Industry team. Prior to joining Microsoft, Simas spent 18 years at GM and eight years at DaimlerChrysler. He left DaimlerChrysler, where he was CIO, to build up the worldwide automotive industry vertical for Microsoft Corporation.
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 | Sebastien Stassin
Partner
Kiska |
After graduating in Transport Design from the American Art Center College of Design in Switzerland, Stassin worked for Piaggio, Aprilia and Honda, prior to joining Kiska in 2003. He assists clients on strategic issues such as identifying new opportunities in market segments, product planning and brand strategy. One of his successes was as head of the design team that has rebuilt the KTM brand, now Europe’s second biggest motorcycle manufacturer.
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 | Peter Stevens
Director
Peter Stevens Design |
As the designer behind the famous McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW, the Lotus Elan, Jaguar’s XJR-15 and the Subaru Impreza P1 road car among others, Peter Stevens is one of the most sought-after automotive designers. The depth of his expertise is clearly acknowledged by his contemporaries through many awards he has received, including two nominations for the UK’s Prince Philip Prize for Designer of the Year and the automotive industry’s coveted Autocar Designer of the Year award. His current projects include new vehicle launches with the automotive division of Mahindra & Mahindra in India, and design consultation for Virgin Atlantic.
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 | Dr V Sumantran
Executive Vice Chairman |
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 | Marco Tencone
Lancia Style Director
Fiat Group Automobiles |
Marco Tencone joined Fiat Goup in 1993 and was assigned to the restructured Lancia Style Centre. In 1998, he designed the Dialogos prototype. Tencone has also worked on the Lancia Nea, Granturismo, and Granturismo Stilnovo and Fulvia concepts. He was involved in the development of the Thesys, Ypsilon and Phedra production cars. In his current role he has coordinated the team responsible for the Lancia design Musa, Ypsilon Sport, Ypsilon FL, Musa FL, and, recently, the new Lancia Delta.
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 | Paolo Tumminelli
Director
Goodbrands Institute for Automotive Culture |
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Paolo Tumminelli is a professor at the Cologne International School of Design. He is the author of numerous publications focusing on car design. He is also a spokesperson and member of the board of Spirt Avert, the Swiss holding company behind the ZEV-project Mindset.
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 | Lowie Vermeersch
Design Director
Pininfarina |
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Lowie Vermeersch’s passion for design saw him taking up a course in industrial design engineering at the Technical University Delft. In 1998 he joined Pininfarina, where he contributed to the design of many successful cars and prototypes such as the Nido, Birdcage 75th and Sintesi. He was promoted to his current post in August 2007.
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 | David Wilkie
Design Director
Stile Bertone |
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David Wilkie joined PSA in 1984, before moving to GHIA in 1988, first as a consultant designer and then as design manager, where he was responsible for the Street Ka project. Wilkie moved to Stile Bertone in 2003, taking up his current post in 2006. Recent projects include the Bertone Suagna, Bertone Barchetta and the Bertone BAT 11, shown at Geneva 2008. He is also collaborating with the Swiss-based Mindset project, where he supports Murat Guenak on all design matters.
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 | Andreas Wlasak
Vice President Industrial Design
Faurecia |
Andreas Wlasak’s career in the automotive industry began in 1999. He was responsible for building and then directing Johnson Controls’ Advanced Design Studio Europe. Wlasak started his working life as a product designer in various consultancies based in Germany and France, and then as design manager with Whirlpool in Italy, where he worked for six years. He joined Faurecia in September 2003.
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