Ex-Bmw Guy Is Kia's Novel Interior Pattern Chief

Another substitution engagement over at Kia is Jochen Paesen who volition straightaway serve every bit Vice President of the carmaker’s Interior Design Group. Paesen volition live on based at the Kia Design Center inwards Namyang, Korea too volition written report to Karim Habib, Senior Vice President too Head of Kia Design Center.

Paesen volition oversee the evolution of the brand’s hereafter interior design. In particular, his presence volition strengthen the brand’s capabilities inwards interior blueprint for a attain of hereafter electrical too electrified vehicles. The engagement is business office of Kia’s wider efforts to capitalize on the blueprint opportunities presented past times electrification.

He brings with him nearly 2 decades of sense leading major interior blueprint projects across volume, premium too start-up brands. His most recent move was Senior Design Director for Interior Design at NIO, where he led a global squad of designers inwards Munich, Germany, too established an interior identity for the build prior to its marketplace entry. He previously spent much of his career at BMW Group, too was credited with designing the 2009 BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept automobile too the BMW i8 Roadster. He too worked with Mr. Habib on a reveal of blueprint projects inwards the early on stages of his career.

The Kia Design Center inwards Namyang, Korea is at the pump of Kia’s global blueprint network. Overseeing all aspects of the brand’s designs, from conceptualization too modelling to styling too evolution of coloring too materials, the blueprint headquarters plant closely with the company’s regional blueprint centers inwards China, Europe, too the U.S.