In July, 2017 Connected Car developer of the platform, the Bright Box company announced Vladimir Ilyichev's appointment to a position of the managing director of the company for CIS region. Vladimir Ilyichev directs business development and interaction with car makers and the dealer centers in Russia and the CIS countries.
Within the last 8 years Vladimir Ilyichev fulfilled duties of the head of department of service and warranty service in RUS Kia Motors company, the sole distributor of Kia Motors Corp in Russia. During this time according to a research on the IACS level (International Aftersales Customer Satisfaction) in 2016 KIA rose from 10 to the 2nd place from 15 not bonus brands. Besides, the project of mobile application and the project on remote control were successfully implemented by functions of the car. Within the management of department, special conditions for service of corporate clients were developed and 2nd Line of spare parts for corporate service for the purpose of cutting of costs for service of cars is entered. As a result sales of cars of KIA RIO and Ceed to corporate clients grew by 30%.