Christopher W. Cedergren has joined AutoPacific Group...

Christopher W. Cedergren has joined AutoPacific Group Inc. as senior vice president responsible for its auto-industry forecasting and market analysis. Cedergren previously was director of forecasting at J.D. Power & Associates, an auto research firm in Agoura Hills.

AutoPacific, based in Santa Ana, also hired another J.D. Power researcher, Steven L. Morrison, who will become AutoPacific’s manager of market analysis. He will work at the firm’s Detroit office, and Cedergren will work in its Thousand Oaks facility.