AVTOVAZ Press-Info December, 17 Togliatti _______ Jean-Philippe Salar will lead LADA Design team Effective January 1, 2021, Jean-Philippe Salar will take a position of Vice-President, LADA Design Director. Steve Mattin, who acted in this position for the past 9 years, took a decision to step off the operational activities for personal reasons. Jean-Philippe Salar, born in 1973, is coming to AVTOVAZ from position of the Design Director for Groupe Renault in Eastern Europe (based in Bucharest), where he worked for the past 5 years and was in charge of the design development of all the Dacia line-up (Duster, new Sandero, new Logan, including Arkana for Russia). In 2013-2015 Mr Salar headed the design team at Renault Samsung Motors in Korea, in 2008-2013 worked in position of studio chief designer in charge of the Renault Design Center Mumbai in India. Mr Caracatzanis stated: “Steve has successfully led the team at LADA Design. He has been fully engaged in the LADA design renewal for 9 years and is a key contributor to the strong renewal of the LADA model line-up. I thank him for these major achievements and I am happy that Steve has accepted my proposal to continue his relationship with AVTOVAZ as my advisor. I wish Mr Salar all the best in the new position and count on his strong contribution in implementation of the LADA ambitious product plan.” _______ Additional information: AVTOVAZ Group is part of Groupe Renault and manufactures cars in full production cycle and auto components for 3 brands: LADA, Renault, Datsun. Group facilities are located in Togliatti –“AVTOVAZ” JSC, “LADA West Togliatti” JSC and in Izhevsk –“LADA Izhevsk” LLC. LADA brand products are represented in В, В+, SUV and LCV segments comprised of 6 model families: Vesta, XRAY, Largus, Granta, 4x4 and Niva. The brand has got more than 20% Russian passenger car market share. The Brand has the largest official dealership in Russia - about 300 dealerships. (8482) 75-77-15 www.lada.ru +7 (499) 263-08-50 vk.com/lada e-mail: [email protected] instagram.com/allnewlada facebook.com/lada https://www.youtube.com/lada twitter.com/LADA_Russia .