Guy has over 27 years of diverse global experience as an automotive designer and leader. This includes design consultancies in the UK, Volvo in Sweden, Renault in France, General Motors in Australia and now Geely in China. His portfolio ranges from Volvo’s first XC vehicle and its floating centre stacks, to Renault’s T-series trucks’ theme definition and GM’s EN-V concept from the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
He joined Geely in 2012 and is now General Manager and VP of Geely Design China. He has been honoured to receive both the Li Shufu award and official recognition for being among the 40 most influential foreigners to work in China in the last 40 years.
Guy Burgoyne, vice president of design at Geely China, reveals the measures taken by the company during lockdown, and describes the current situation in China with the re-opening of the Geely design studios
In this livestream discussion, Geely’s Guy Burgoyne, SAIC’s Shao Jingfeng and Hyundai’s Simon Loasby discuss the measures they have and are taking to keep studios working during lockdown and how the Chinese and Korean studios are adapting to going back to work and what measures are in place.
VP of Geely design on the firm’s rapid expansion and the challenge of meeting high expectations of tech in cars
Geely Design moved its main China facility into an anonymous looking site near Shanghai South Station in June. Studio chief Guy Burgoyne gave us a little tour