Henrik Fisker

Henrik Fisker ( born August 10, 1963 in Denmark) is an automobile designer and CEO of the company Fisker Coach Build LLC, a part of the joint venture Fisker Automotive. Well-known works by him are the BMW Z8 and the Aston Martin DB9.

Fisker studied until 1989 at the Swiss branch of the California Art Center College of Design. After his studies he began in Munich design center of BMW to work. There he was responsible for the 1997 shown at the Tokyo Motor Show sports car study Z07, which served as the basis for the subsequent production model BMW Z8. In 2000 he was President and CEO of DesignworksUSA, a subsidiary of BMW in California.

In 2001 he moved to Ford to draw responsible for the design of Aston Martin there. Here he designed the DB9 and V8 Vantage. In Aston Martin he also sat on the supervisory board. In 2003 he became Chief of Global Advanced Design Studio by Ford in Irvine, California.

Later he left Ford to make up with Bernhard Koehler under the name Fisker Coach Build LLC independently. On the basis of production vehicles such as the BMW 6 Series or the Mercedes -Benz SL they produce their own designs by hand.

Besides its own company Fisker is also active in commercial work, such as 2007 Artega and for Tesla Motors. There he worked on the body design for a planned four-door plug -in hybrid. The end of 2007 Fisker then founded the joint venture Fisker Automotive, together with Quantum Technologies. The company developed the Fisker Karma, a four-door plug-in hybrid sedan. From Tesla Motors, he was sued in 2008 due to industrial espionage. Tesla Motors says Fisker took the $ 875,000 - job in order to gain access to secret information from Tesla.