Bryan Benedict, Dmitriy Shakhmatov
Background
Bryan Benedict — Bryan Benedict has worked at Hot Wheels since 2004 and is now Senior Design Manager. Before that, he was a designer in Honda's R&D department and worked on projects for Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi. The models associated with him include the Ford GTX-1 (2007), Madfast (2008) and El Superfasto (2011), as well as character cars (Kermit, Black Widow, Princess Leia, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man) and the Minecraft line.
Dmitriy Shakhmatov — Dmitriy Shakhmatov is design manager of Hot Wheels' die-cast line. According to a 2018 interview, he started at the brand about four and a half years earlier (around 2013–2014), brought in by a friend who was already a designer at the company for a Star Wars line project. The most prominent work cited in the interview is a full-size X-Wing displayed at Comic-Con 2016.
