Hankook appoints Jacobi HR director Europe

Thomas Jacobi is the new director of human resources at Hankook Tire’s European headquarters. He began in this position on 1 March and is responsible for managing the tyre maker’s human resources activities within the region. Jacobi joins Hankook Tire from telecommunications company Syniverse Technologies, where he was senior regional director for the EMEA region. In total, Jacobi has more than 13 years of experience in human resources across various sectors.

“We would like to give Mr Jacobi a warm welcome in his new position at Hankook,” says Han-Jun Kim, president of Hankook Tire Europe. “With him, we have found the right successor for this position with abundant experience and expertise we can trust and build on, to further our human resources strategy for Europe, which is Hankook’s largest and most important region. Thanks to his international experience, including comprehensive knowledge in the fields of change management and organisation development, he has the outstanding credentials necessary to be able to set the right focus in this key position.”

“I am happy to be taking on the task of new human resources director for Hankook in Europe,” adds Jacobi. “I am looking forward to contributing my experience to an internationally successful company like Hankook. It will be important to further promote the cultural change that has already been initiated and to extend recruiting efforts. As a motorsports and vintage car enthusiast, I am fully aware that the branch has high expectations of the technical know-how of its employees. This will be one of the focuses of human resources development.”

Jacobi succeeds Ji Su Lim, who has returned to Hankook Tire’s corporate headquarters in Korea and is now part of the ‘Human Resource Team’ at the Technodome research and development centre.