IMMI
Avinash Shahare is a Senior Product Engineer at IMMI since August 2022, with a comprehensive background in product engineering within the automotive seating industry. Prior to IMMI, Avinash served as a Lead Product Engineer at Fisher Dynamics, focusing on the development of Statement of Requirements for Seats Structure Subsystems from April 2015 to June 2022. Avinash's experience includes serving as a Senior Product Engineer at Honda R&D Americas, where responsibilities involved rear seat design that met federal regulations, and as an Assistant Engineering Manager and Lead Design Engineer at Johnson Controls, overseeing project management and design within the Seating group. Avinash also held design engineering roles at Lear Corporation and Kinetic Communication Ltd. Avinash earned a Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University mechanical engineering degree from 1999 to 2004 and is currently pursuing an MS in Administration with a focus on Project Management at Central Michigan University, with an expected completion in May 2025.
IMMI
For more than 60 years, IMMI® has been the industry leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of advanced safety systems, operating from world-class headquarters on a 70-acre campus in Westfield, Ind. IMMI was founded in 1961 as Indiana Mills and Manufacturing, Inc. With four employees and two sewing machines, the company manufactured and distributed seat belts for automotive applications. Today, IMMI has grown into a global company that specializes in bringing innovative customized safety solutions to people throughout the world, with facilities in North America, Mexico, China and Europe. An ongoing dedication to “Bringing Safety to People” is the hallmark of the company, and this commitment continues today as IMMI pioneers the latest generation of advanced safety systems. With the vision of a safer future for every child and adult riding in a vehicle, IMMI produces hundreds of innovative products for various sectors. IMMI products are found on commercial, industrial, military and emergency response vehicles, as well as on school buses, motorcoaches and child restraints.