About Autovision

Autovision, Inc. was established in September 1994 by Bill Barranco as a source of video and Online reporting of the latest developments in the global Automotive Design community. Since 1999, Autovision has specialized in providing Automotive Design Executive recruitment services to major manufacturer’s studios. We have placed professional automotive designers from 2 to 20 years’ experience into studios in England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Detroit, California, Korea and Japan.

The Autovision team consists of a few key individuals that help to make your interaction with us as accurate and efficient as possible. Each member specializes in supporting the Recruiting services of Autovision in a special way, yet we all cross functions in at least one other skill. Not mentioned here, are several others that serve as associates, in various locations globally.
Bill Barranco
Bill Barranco is a graduate of Art Center College of Design 1977 and later attended the Royal College of Art in London for Masters Degree studies. His 20+ years as an automotive designer for companies such as Ford, Nissan, Volvo, and Design Manager at I.A.D. in the UK, provide him with the knowledge of the design business and an international base of contacts.

From 1999 through 2004, Bill has was a part time professor of Automotive Design Students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. Sponsored projects include clients such as Ford, Nissan, Toyota and Peugeot.

Bill attends most of the international auto shows throughout the year where he especially enjoys meeting candidates that he has come to know through his recruiting activity.
Olympia Kemp
Olympia has been providing management assistance for a variety of Silicon Valley tech and software companies for over four years. As a Key Administrator for Veritas Software, she managed and built customer relations. As an Operations Administrator for Locality.com, she developed and managed many database information entry methods. For E*Trade, Olympia provided support for CEOs in managing schedules, events and assisting in data entry.

Now exclusively for Autovision, Olympia has developed into the primary contact person for new candidates seeking positions, and is constantly updating Autovision's Candidate and Client contact information. She applies her personal as well as technical skills to directly assist Candidates and Clients, and to complement all the daily Recruiting activities at Autovision.
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