Jozef Kabaň (born 4 January 1973) is a Slovak

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designer. He started his career as a designer at

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. In 2003 he moved to

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as an exterior design assistant. In 2007 he advanced to the position of Chief of Exterior Design at

. He was exterior designer of the

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and

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. He has been Chief of Exterior Design at

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since 2008. In early 2017 he left Škoda for BMW to become its head of design replacing

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. In 2019 he changed position within BMW Group and headed design at its subsidiary

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. After half a year he decided to leave Rolls-Royce and BMW Group returning to VW in January 2020, this time for its main VW brand.

Education

Kaban completed a degree in Industrial Design from the

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located in

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, Slovakia in 1991. He graduated with a

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from the

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, London, UK in 1997.

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