Craig Callum, Dmitriy Shakhmatov

Craig Callum — Craig Callum is a British designer and has been a Hot Wheels design manager since November 2022, where he also designs mainline cars. Before that, he worked at LEGO, designing vehicles for the LEGO Speed Champions line. In a 2026 interview with Lamley, he appears as Senior Design Manager reviewing the team's projects.

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.