Hyundai Motor Group has been listed as a proud recipient of high honours of the 2025 Automotive News All-Star Awards, as two of the leaders have taken great efforts to contribute to the motor industry in the global marketplace. Heui Won Yang and Randy Parker were honored as groundbreaking innovators in the product development field and role models in leadership in North America, ensuring the mobility innovator Hyundai becomes a global world-leading mobility innovator.
Two business leaders are All-Star honorees
Hyundai Motor Group has been honoured with two 2025 Automotive News All-Star Awards in recognition of its leadership and innovative focus towards global automotive excellence. As detailed in the official announcement of the company, Heui Won Yang, the President and the Head of the Research and Development Division of Hyundai Motor and Kia, and Randy Parker, the President and CEO of Hyundai and Genesis Motor North America, were awarded due to the changes that they brought last year.
Automobili-D, the future of mobility event held in January 2018, included Yang in their list of the 2025 Automotive News All-Stars in the Product Development category in recognition of his visionary leadership and pioneering innovations that have helped Hyundai and Kia become leaders in the global automotive sphere when it comes to research and development capabilities. Yang has pioneered significant change in Hyundai Motor Group in the shape of vehicle development, platform engineering, and lightweight materials to make the car group a world-class mobility innovator.
Parker drives growth in North America
On the U.S. front, Parker was included in the 2025 Automotive News All-Stars in the U. S. Executive, Global Automaker category. Parker has set an exemplary record in the life of Hyundai Motor America, as the company has registered a very high level of growth in the sales of its products.
The strategies under Parker have caused the company to reach all-time sales records in the retail sales business four years in a row, and have established Hyundai Motor as a leader in electrification and sustainable mobility. Parker was honored in line with his former advancements to the industry, such as the achievement of Automotive News All-Star in 2021 and the positioning of Automotive Hall of Fame Industry Influencer in 2022.
Being named an All-Star is extremely humbling and gratifying to Automotive News, Parker says. This is a reflection of the great teams and dealers with whom I collaborate day-to-day, and the fortitude of the Hyundai and Genesis brands. I am proud of our progress and look forward to working to deliver innovative and sustainable mobility to our customers on an ongoing basis.”
The Awards honour the transformation leaders in the industry
The Automotive News All-Star Awards are one of the most highly regarded in the global automobile sector, awarded to a number of leading individuals per annum, usually between 35 and 40 people nominated by peers in respect of groundbreaking contributions.
To be named to the Automotive News list is an absolutely stunning privilege, and to be the only North American company on it is humbling. It is a true testimony to the work that occurred at the facilities in the Pacific Northwest as well as around the world. The supremacy of this award is the output of the entire R&D group at Hyundai Motor Group. We will continue to pursue new horizons of innovation to provide the best vehicles to our consumers and to advance the industry.
The 2025 Automotive News All-Star Awards, which are deserved by Heui Won Yang and Randy Parker, are indications of Hyundai Motor Group’s unsurpassed dedication to innovation and leadership excellence in the international markets. Be it revolutionary platform engineering that simplifies production efficiency or epic growth in sales in North America, home to cutthroat competition, these innovations showcase the complete picture of automotive transformation followed by the company.