California Design Research & Engineering

Team

Henning Knoepfle - President

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With strong cross cultural experience working and living in China, US and Germany Henning embraces a servant leadership style. He as expertise in building and leading teams for manufacturers and suppliers from established, start up, and turn around situations. Balancing strategic vision with practical solutions as foundation to implement team, creative and business growth.

Bill Barranco - VP Business Development

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Bill is an Automotive Design Services Consultant, serving Automotive Design and product development offices. Start-up services include design operations management, recruiting, staffing, budgets and timing plans. His clients are based in the Silicon Valley, Southern CA, and the Detroit areas, offering nearly 20 years of design industry contacts and supplier resources both in the US and China.