Derek Jenkins to head up Mazda North America design
by Sam Abuelsamid (RSS feed) on May 1st, 2009 at 5:32PM
Mazda has a new leader for its North American design efforts courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi. Derek Jenkins is moving to Irvine, California to head up the studio that created concepts such as the Nagare and Furai as well as the latest 6 and 3 from Mazda. Jenkins had a 15 year tenure in design at the Volkswagen group, including most recently being the Chief of Design for Volkswagen Group North America. His credits at VW included the Audi A8 and the Volkswagen Iroc concept that eventually became the new Scirocco. At the Mazda studio Jenkins is charged with migrating the design language seen... Read More
