Dmitriy Shakhmatov, Omar Rehman, Jun Imai
Background
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.
Omar Rehman — Omar Nayeemur Rehman interned at Mattel from June to December 2017 as a designer of Hot Wheels vehicles and smaller playsets. Before that, he interned at The Carlab and worked in PR for EuroJet Racing; afterwards, he interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and worked as a contract industrial designer with studio.VO and MODUS Group. Today he is a communications designer at D-Ford, the design group of Ford Motor Company.
Jun Imai — Jun Imai is a Design Manager at Hot Wheels, at Mattel. In a 2016 interview, he described leading a team of six designers and taking part in automotive partnerships and licensing, such as the collaboration with Porsche customizer Magnus Walker. He grew up collecting Hot Wheels and, according to the interviewer, brought a strong JDM (Japanese domestic market) influence to the brand's models. The sources consulted do not state his education or year of entry.
