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2023 JUDGES






MASSIMO FRASCELLA

Design Director

JAGUAR AND LAND ROVER



BIO

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KARIM ANTOINE HABIB

Head of Design

KIA



BIO

Coming soon






LISA REEVES

Head of Interior Design

VOLVO CARS



BIO

Responsible for leading the team to develop designs for Volvo interiors
globally, Lisa has held the position Head of Interior Design since 2020, In her
previous role as Director Interior Program Design Lisa developed designs on the
next generation SPA 2 platform. Prior to that she was Design Manger, leading the
Interior design of Polstar 2 EV and the Volvo V60 and S60. She moved to Volvo
Cars in Sweden with her family in 2014 from Bentley Motors, where she was an
interior designer creating proposals and developing designs for Mulsanne,
Continental GT, Flying Spur and special Mulliner projects. She also created
proposals for Bugatti. Her success at Bentley saw her promoted to the role of
Senior interior Designer. Prior to her time at Bentley Lisa worked at Jaguar and
Land Rover as a computer design modeller, she joined the company in 2004 on a
graduate scheme after gaining a first class maters degree at Coventry
University.






MARTIN UHLARIK

Vice-president and Head of Global Design

TATA MOTORS



BIO

A returning judge from the inaugural 2022 CDN People Awards, Martin M Uhlarik is
Vice President, Head of Design at Tata Motors, a position he has held since
2021. A Canadian with 28 years of international experience. He directs a global
design team of 180 people in three locations; India, the UK and Italy. He is
responsible for the design of all products across three business units for
passenger, electric and commercial vehicles. This remit also includes all design
responsibilities including branding, corporate design and communication such as
motor show and dealership design. Since 2022 he is also Director of the Tata
Motors European Technical Center on top of his role as Head of Design. Born and
raised in Toronto, Canada. He graduated in Industrial Design at the Ontario
College of Design in Toronto in 1993 and Art Center College of Design in
Transportation Design in 1994. He joined Tata Motors in 2016, first as Head of
the UK design. Under his leadership he led the teams designing the 2018 45X
premium hatch concept previewing the Tata Altroz and the Tata eVision which set
out the ambition for electrification, the brand’s move upmarket and design DNA.
In 2019 The Tata H2X concept previewed the Tata Punch which has created a new
sub compact SUV space in the Indian market. In 2020 the studio created the Tata
Sierra Concept a revival of an iconic name plate. Recently ht ecompany unveiled
the Tata Curvv, the first SUV EV Coupe that will go on sale soon and the Avinya
Concept that represents Gen 3 full electrification and the future DNA of Tata
mobility. Martin’s international career has seen him work for several companies.
He started by joining Skoda Auto in Prague, the Czech Republic. There he
contributed to the design’s of the first generation of products. In 2001 he
joined Nissan Design at their studio in Munich and later in London. There he
worked on a variety of programs both advanced concepts and for production. In
2011 He joined SAIC Motor as Design Director of the UK studio from 2011 - 2016.
He initiated the direction of the brand strategy for both Roewe and MG brands.
This foundation has led to the design of the next generation of vehicles.
Notable works 1999 Skoda Fabia 2001 Skoda Fabia Combi 2001 Skoda Superb 2002
Skoda Tudor Concept 2003 Nissan Evalia Concept 2007 Nissan NV200 Concept 2008
Nissan Qashqai+2 2010 Nissan Qashqai MCE 2018 Tata eVision Concept 2018 Tata 45X
Concept 2019 Tata H2X Concept 2019 Tata Altroz 2020 Tata Sierra Concept 2021
Tata Punch 2022 Tata Curvv Concept 2022 Avinya Concept 2023 Tata Sierra






GORDEN WAGENER

Chief Design Officer

MERCEDES-BENZ



BIO

Gorden Wagener, one of the most influential automotive designers in recent
times, has led the worldwide design unit of Mercedes-Benz and all its brands
since 2008. As Chief Design Officer of the company since 2016 his goal for the
brands of the Mercedes-Benz Group is to build the most desirable cars in the
world. Wagener approaches this ambition with his design philosophy of “Sensual
Purity,” which defines the specific luxury of the different brands. Wagener’s
designs set new impulses in luxury and satisfy a desire for beauty and the
extraordinary. This outlook is reflected most recently in the EQS, the
Mercedes-AMG SL, the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the Vision EQXX, the Project
Geländewagen & Project Maybach, Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Coupé & Cabriolet and
the Vision AMG.






PRATAP BOSE

Executive Vice-President & Chief Design Officer

MAHINDRA GROUP



BIO

Pratap Bose is a British Designer, born in Bombay, India. After completing his
schooling at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Pratap graduated from the
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a Diploma in Industrial Design,
specialising in Product Design He then moved to Piaggio & C. SpA, in Pontedera,
Italy, where over a period of 3 years, he worked on the design of products for
the world renown Vespa, Piaggio and Gilera brands. Having won a scholarship to
study a Masters’ degree in Vehicle Design, at the prestigious Royal College of
Art, Pratap moved to London in 2001. Following this, he moved to Japan to work
as a designer at Mitsubishi Motors, Nagoya and finally at the Mercedes Benz
Advanced Design Centre in Yokohama, Japan. Pratap then joined the newly formed
TATA MOTORS EUROPEAN TECHNICAL CENTRE (TMETC) in 2007 as a Technical Specialist.
He was a part of the team that established a UK Design presence for Tata Motors.
Operating initially from rented design studios in Birmingham and Coventry,
Pratap helped in the design and planning of the TMETC UK design studio at the
NAIC, on the University of Warwick Campus in Coventry. The Design Studio in the
UK became the epicentre of advanced product design projects for Tata Motors and
has delivered some award winning and market leading products. This includes
concept as well as production cars. Drawing heavily on the talent from the
Birmingham and Coventry area, the UK Design studio is now an integral part of
TATA MOTORS’ Global Design Studio network. Pratap and his team have received
many awards for outstanding design from the motoring press, and other bodies in
India and Overseas, including Auto Car magazine and the German Design Council.
In 2018, Pratap was awarded the Chief Design Officer of the Year, by the China
Industrial Design Association. In 2021, Pratap was shortlisted as one of five
World Car Person of the Year awardees. In June 2021, Pratap joined Mahindra and
Mahindra, as the Chief Design Officer, the first time such a role has existed at
the Mahindra group. In this role, Pratap is responsible for the India, as well
as UK based Advanced Design studio. Pratap and his team of over 100 design
professionals work across a range of products from Tractors, Trucks, buses,
pick-ups and SUV’s. Pratap is an avid modeller, and has a collection of over 65
World War 2, 1:72 scale plastic models, which he creates in his free time.

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